Additional qualifications
- Hypnosis
- Body psychotherapy
- Pain psychology
Professional interests
Pain conditions and related client work, as well as pain research, have been my professional interests since the beginning of my career nearly 30 years ago. In my work as a pain psychologist, I am interested in combining recent scientific research with client work. This way, it is possible to create thinking and action models that serve treatment and rehabilitation goals. Before interventions, I aim to gather the most comprehensive and holistic understanding of the client’s nature, experiences, and symptoms.
My clients also include individuals who experience psychological symptoms, stress, anxiety, and depression, ranging from children to the elderly.
In integrative psychotherapy, the starting point is the client’s individual therapeutic needs and goals, which psychotherapy aims to address. The methods used are selected, and therapy is tailored from the start according to the client’s needs and preferences. Integrative psychotherapy emphasizes the common factors across various types of psychotherapy that most influence therapy outcomes, such as a good therapeutic relationship and the expectation of a positive outcome, according to research.
The fundamental task of psychotherapy is to increase the client’s self-awareness and strengthen their sense of agency, leading to an expansion of self-understanding and an increase in the sense of control, as well as better regulation of their own emotions and actions.
Therapeutic work can, if necessary, include hypnosis or body-psychotherapeutic methods if it serves the client’s needs and the therapy process.
Psychotherapy can be reimbursed by Kela with a B-medical statement from a psychiatrist.
Prices
Prices for self-paying clients:
Pain psychologist consultation 45 min 170 €
Hypnosis 45 min 170 €
Psychotherapy 45 min 100 €
Kela reimbursement
These services are not reimbursable by Kela except psychotherapy provided with Kela’s payment commitment.