Integrative psychotherapy for personal growth

Psychotherapy for personal growth and coping with life's challenges. Together we explore paths towards a more balanced and fulfilling life.

"Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion."
Bell Hooks

What is psychotherapy

Psychotherapy is a process of getting to know yourself more deeply through a safe and supportive relationship with a psychotherapist. It allows you to explore and reshape the patterns of thought, behaviour and emotion that shape your life. Therapeutic work brings together both mind and body – by integrating the two, we gain access to parts of ourselves that have so far been less conscious, and we create space for inner growth and change.

Areas of work

Therapy is for anyone who:

• Is dealing with stress, anxiety or feelings of being overwhelmed
• Experiences low self-esteem, feelings of not being accepted, or shame
• Has difficulties in relationships (with a partner, in the family, with friends or at work)
• Is facing loss, grief or major life transitions
• Is dealing with the aftermath of traumatic, stressful or emotionally overwhelming experiences and would like support through the EMDR method*
• Experiences feelings of loneliness, emptiness or inner uncertainty
• Wants to understand and regulate their emotions better
• Is struggling with chronic tension, burnout or psychosomatic difficulties
• Is looking for deeper contact with themselves, their needs and their inner resources
• Lives abroad, or has made Slovenia their second home, and is dealing with the various difficulties that come with it

I also work with people for whom Slovenia is not their first home, as well as with Slovenians living abroad.

EMDR

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a structured, evidence-based psychotherapeutic method for processing stressful, distressing and traumatic experiences.

When we go through a highly stressful, threatening or emotionally overwhelming event, our brain is sometimes unable to process it in the same way as ordinary life experiences. The memory may therefore remain stored together with the intense emotions, bodily sensations, images and negative beliefs that were present at the time of the event. Even though the event is in the past, its impact can continue to show up in the present.

We may feel this as anxiety, fear, inner tension, a sense of helplessness, shame or guilt, but also as intrusive memories and images, nightmares, strong physical reactions or heightened sensitivity to certain situations. Sometimes a seemingly insignificant event, sound, smell, word or someone else's behaviour triggers a reaction far more intense than the current situation would suggest – as if part of our nervous system were still responding to something that happened in the past.

EMDR helps the brain to gradually reprocess such experiences and connect them with the information and experiences we have today. In doing so, I use a structured therapeutic protocol and so-called bilateral stimulation – alternating stimulation of the left and right sides of the body, most often by following movements with the eyes, but also through alternating touch or other forms of stimulation.

It is important to note that the aim of EMDR is not to erase the memory or to forget what happened. The memory remains part of our life story, but it can lose its intensity and the sense of immediate threat. The person is still aware of the event, but can experience it with more distance, less physical and emotional arousal, and with a more realistic view of themselves and of what happened.

EMDR is often used to address the consequences of traumatic and other difficult life experiences, but it can also be helpful with difficulties in which distressing memories, prolonged stress or deeply rooted emotional responses play an important role. The process is always individual and moves at a pace adapted to each person.

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