Services and methods

Services

Guidance in developing resources and personality

• Increasing self-worth and autonomy
  Improving self-awareness and self-confidence
  Developing creative potential
  Supporting the self-realization process

Psychological counselling and crisis intervention

• Relationship crises
  Relationship counselling
  Acute identity crises
  Difficulties at work or school
  Educational counselling for parents and teachers

Psychotherapeutic guidance for young people and adults

• Relationship problems in private life or in education and employment
• Performance problems in education and employment
• Burnout and depression
• Fears and phobias, compulsions
• Sleep disorders
• Psychosomatic conditions
• Identity crises
• Reorientation in private life, education and employment
• Coping with personal loss following a separation or death

Psychotherapeutic guidance for children – play therapy

• School phobia
• Difficulties at school connected with emotional imbalance and developmental difficulties (inability to control impulses, e.g. due to ADHS or excessive social inhibition and shyness)
• Lack of concentration and attention at school and when doing homework
• Problems with integrating into the class
• Lack of self-worth and self-confidence
• Sleep disorders
• Psychosomatic disorders
• Coping with personal loss following a separation or death

Supervisory guidance of therapists

• Individual supervision
• Group supervision
• Team supervision

Methods

Adults and young people:

• Talking
• Dream work, symbolic understanding of dreams / dream- processes
• Working with pictures / drawings and paintings
• Sandplay

Play therapy with children:

• Free choice of games
• Free painting and drawing
• Projective tests (family drawings, Baum test, Wartegg test)
• Sandplay
• Role play
• Therapeutic puppetry
• Working with clay and other materials
• Telling and reading stories
• Explaining and re-creating dreams
• Singing, making music and dancing

Talking with the child’s main carers:

• Both parents together or individual discussions with the mother or father
• Other important family members (siblings, grandparents)
• Teacher
• Paediatrician or family doctor