Since the fall of 2019, I organize virtual intervision groups for location-independent psychotherapists. Inspired by their success and the wonderful collaboration among colleagues, I’ve decided to organize more groups for mutual support and knowledge exchange, open to anyone actively working in the field of mental health. Every month, there are two meetings for casework and…Read more …
What is an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and why your company needs one? An EAP can help businesses, managers, their employees, and their families with a variety of issues in and out of the workplace, including mental health services and employee assistance with personal, family, and work issues. In the year 2020 social isolation will…Read more …
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned us of many potential mental health challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. The most affected are the medical staff, the infected and their relatives, as well as people with mental illness who have difficulty undergoing remote therapy. A large wave of issues of neurotic nature is also expected,…Read more …
Consultations with a psychotherapist via video chat are not much different than live sessions. The first step is to exchange several messages by mail. I need to know what the problem is in order to determine if I am the right specialist for you, or I should refer you to a colleague. Then we exchange…Read more …
The psychotherapist today is not an elderly man with beard and glasses, who, sitting quietly in a gloomy cabinet, takes notes in a leather notebook – this is the therapist from the generation of my professors, however, times are changing. The therapist of today merges with the crowd, feels its energy, and captures the emotions…Read more …
Anyone working in a stressful environment; Anyone who would like to improve crucial details of his/her life, such as communication with family members, abilities to get over loss and separation, strategies to cope with work issues and relationship problems, etc. ; Anyone who suffers from general anxiety, social anxiety, body image issues, etc.; People who…Read more …
For better or for worse, we are all connected with the immense stream of digital information and all we can do now is take advantage of it. Psychotherapy isn’t excluded from this tendency. Many specialists turn to the digital means of communication in order to give more options to their clients. I am one of…Read more …
It is difficult to accurately determine when ordinary sadness progresses into a depressive state, nevertheless with time passing, they are quite clearly identifiable. Sadness has a certain cause, it lasts for a while (usually a few months) and at some point begins to slowly fade away. This is where the old cliché that time heals…Read more …
It is imminent to understand that severe cases of dependence on alcohol or a narcotic substance should be treated in a hospital. Its serious physiological and physiological dimensions make it almost impossible for the individual to cope with them without medical intervention. However, my experience shows that long before a person becomes physically dependent on…Read more …
What is the difference between fear, phobia and anxiety? Fear is a perfectly normal way for a living being to survive in hostile nature. For us, however, fears can be very abstract. Fear of commitment, for instance, is related to all conscious or unconscious connotations that burden the word “relationship” with negative meaning. Fear of…Read more …