Individual psychotherapy for adults

Areas of Specialization

I work with various disorders or difficulties, such as:

• cultural shock or adaptation in a new place or culture (Polish diaspora, emigrants, Erasmus students, refugees, Poles abroad – people who struggle with cultural adaptation problems),
• social rejection or social exclusion,
• victims of violence of various types, including sexual, domestic or psychological violence,
• long-term traumas and the effects of these traumas (dissociations, derealizations, depersonalization, memory disorders, fugues) also sexual trauma,
• emotional crises and nervous breakdowns,
• burnout,
• crisis intervention,
• communication problems,
• identity disorders , including psychosexual identity (3rd gender),
• anxiety disorders (neuroses, OCD, panic attacks, phobias or unusual personality disorders),
• depressive disorders,
• CHAD (bipolar disorder),
• ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder),
• PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) and cPTSD,
• mild autism and mild autism spectrum disorders,
• female autism,
• difficulties related to parenthood (including single parents),
• Culturally, ethnically or religiously mixed couples,
• people with an extreme worldview, including religious ones,
• people associated with the New Religious Movements,
• psychosomatic disorders, including psycho-oncology,
• eating disorders,
• chronic pain,
• sleep disorders,
• psychotic and semi-psychotic disorders that may be conducted online, including people in remission diagnosed with schizophrenia,
• supporting foreigners living in Poland and not only
• I work in English with people from different cultures,
• people with DDA syndrome (Adult Children of Alcoholics) or DDD syndrome (Adult Children from Dysfunctional Families)
• people with DDBR syndrome (Adult Children of Rich Parents).
• female sexual problems (vaginis, dyspareunia, etc.)
• supportive for young parents or those planning to have children,
• supportively with pregnant women (if they have not been in therapy before, only from the 4th month of pregnancy – unless there are other recommendations)
• supportively with bedridden people,
• support in self-development,
• support in working with anger and learning boundaries (for victims of violence)
• mourning, believers,
• lack of security.

As an experienced psychologist, I do not work with perpetrators of violence, hospital personality disorders, the risk of self-harm or suicide, as well as a clinically deep picture of narcissism, sociopathy or borderline and depression. I also do not issue certificates or opinions, only those that oblige the psychotherapist always during the long-term process of therapy.

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Online psychological consultations

I invite adults who are determined to undertake psychotherapy for consultations. I specialize mainly in women’s issues related to experiencing oneself as a woman in various levels of functioning, working with trauma, personality disorders (but not profound ones such as borderline), mood disorders, anxiety, PTSD and others.

Develop Healthy Relationships: Online Couples and Marriage Psychotherapy

In this day and age, where the challenges of everyday life can weigh on relationships, online couples and marriage psychotherapy is becoming a key resource in building strong, healthy bonds. Our online sessions offer a space to work deeply on relationships, providing the tools and support necessary to overcome difficulties.

Faced with the challenges of the modern world, healthy relationships may require additional support and tools to thrive. Online couples and marriage psychotherapy provides a flexible and accessible way to work on relationships, no matter where you are. Through our online sessions, couples have the opportunity to deepen their understanding of each other, work on communication and resolve conflicts in a safe environment. Our approach is focused on building lasting, healthy bonds, with an emphasis on understanding and respecting the individual needs of each partner.

Online Marriage Psychotherapy: Modern Solutions for Traditional Fulfillments

Online marriage psychotherapy provides couples with the flexibility to tailor therapy to their unique needs and schedules, helping them develop the communication and understanding necessary for lasting love.

Online marriage psychotherapy offers couples modern solutions that allow them to work on their relationship in a way that is both flexible and effective. By tailoring therapy to couples’ unique needs and schedules, we help them develop key communication skills, understanding, and empathy for each other. Through this process, couples learn how to better manage conflict, strengthen their bond, and renew their commitment to their relationship, which is essential for lasting love and mutual support.

Psychological and Psychotherapeutic Support for Young Mothers Online

Starting your motherhood journey can come with many challenges. Psychological and psychotherapeutic support for young mums online is available to provide you with the support and tools you need to navigate through these life changes, promoting mental health and wellbeing.

The transition to motherhood is one of the most transformative periods in a woman’s life, often bringing with it not only joy but also challenges. Psychological and psychotherapeutic support for young moms online is here to provide a space where you can safely talk about your experiences, feelings, and concerns. Our team of specialists provides support, understanding and practical tools for young mums, helping them adapt to their new role, cope with mood swings and build positive relationships with their children while taking care of their own mental health.

Individual Adult Psychotherapy Online: A Personalized Path to Self-Discovery

For those seeking a deeper understanding of themselves and improving their quality of life, Adult Individual Psychotherapy Online offers private, secure sessions tailored to each client’s individual goals and needs.

In our changing and often stressful world, having space to reflect and work on yourself is invaluable. Individual adult psychotherapy online offers private, you-focused sessions to help you discover and resolve underlying issues, internal conflicts, or traumas. Working individually, we tailor the therapeutic approach to your unique needs and goals, supporting you in your quest for better well-being, healthier relationships, and a fuller life. Our online sessions provide convenience and discretion, allowing you to do deep therapeutic work from wherever you are.

Online individual psychotherapy is becoming increasingly popular among adults, offering online emotional support and effective tools for managing stress online. Many people wonder if online psychotherapy is effective. Research and expert opinions confirm that such forms of therapy, including online cognitive behavioral therapy, can bring significant benefits, as effective as those achieved in traditional therapeutic settings. Online adult therapy ensures accessibility and discretion, which is especially important for people with limited opportunities to participate in in-person sessions.

We also recommend taking a look at our other services:
– Couples and Marriage Consultation, Problem Diagnosis – Online Psychotherapy

– Psychotherapy inthe Arguing

– Psychotherapeutic support for future mothers. Preparing women for pregnancy or support in the prenatal and postnatal period

– Culture shock – cultural psychoeducation

Characteristics of individual therapy

It is a psychotherapeutic process that usually requires a longer period of meetings (from 2 to even 10 years), but with less frequency. The main currents of psychotherapy dealing with this type of difficulties are m.in. psychoanalysis or psychodynamic psychotherapy.

People who come to psychotherapy suffer from such traumas as, for example, alcoholism of one of their parents or loved ones, being a victim of pathological patterns of behavior and communication in the family, or violence from loved ones or the environment. They sometimes experience social exclusion (scapegoat syndrome), their lives are inscribed with loss (not necessarily the death of a loved one) or they have been exposed to a huge number of external factors that threaten their lives. All these problems are often accompanied by psychosomatic ailments.

The purpose of psychotherapy

The basis for recovery is to return to the past of memories, to satisfy the need to share and cry out the trauma, but also to internally overcome the perpetrators by increasing their life force and making better choices in life.

All this allows us to go beyond the pattern of trauma, which unconsciously remains in the minds of victims and children from families with dysfunction for many years. Such people need to know their sensitive places, leave the trauma as a known and cared for chapter in their lives, and make an absolute decision NEVER AGAIN. Therefore, this type of therapy takes a long time and requires a lot of energy from patients. After some time, wings cut as a result of trauma can grow back and be strong regardless of the injuries and harm suffered.

During trauma psychotherapy, I primarily deal with creating a base for people who are too emotionally fragile in a given period of life to undertake a deeper type of psychotherapy (psychoanalysis or psychodynamic psychotherapy), and who want to start such a process in the future. It also gives the opportunity to continue long-term psychotherapy, but under different conditions.

That’s why it’s worth starting with the base, because it strengthens the basic emotional and mental structures, which allows you not to be afraid of confrontation and naming problems. People who are able to talk openly about their problems complete psychotherapeutic processes much faster. Sometimes it takes up to a year or two of psychotherapy to perform the act of naming the problem.

Crisis intervention

Methodology

(emotional crisis, panic attacks, death of a loved one, other crisis situation):

It is a form of short-term support consisting of listening to the patient and quick therapeutic interventions so that they can cope with the crisis response to the event. This is the basis for finding points of support when something sudden or unexpected happens.

Psychotherapy using the IPSK method

Introduction to the Method

This method treats the database very seriously and its goal is to provide the patient with individually selected guidelines that allow him to cope with the situation and his own reaction. Thanks to the implementation of these guidelines, the patient will be able to start long-term or short-term psychotherapy, as his emotional state will be more stable (learn more about the IPSK method).

The recommended type of therapy after stabilizing the crisis situation is psychoanalysis, psychodynamic-humanistic psychotherapy or cognitive-behavioral therapy or Gestalt. They allow the patient to learn to think without the habits that have arisen during a crisis situation.

Sometimes we work strictly on emotions and impressions (Gestalt), tasks (CBT) or look for a way out of the crisis in a more intrapsychic way: we teach how to live without a crisis (psychoanalysis, psychodynamic and humanistic psychotherapy), get to know ourselves anew, without a crisis or understand the nature of a crisis (existential therapy).

IPSK psychotherapy also allows the patient to find their own guidelines to increase their resilience to the crisis and the safety base, to discern coping strategies, to get to know the crisis and themselves in crisis. It can also turn into long-term psychotherapy.

Psychotherapeutic Support for People from Other Cultures

Ethnopsychotherapy

Cultural psychotherapy (ethnopsychotherapy) is a form of assistance used to explain and diagnose problems resulting from cultural differences. It concerns cultural adaptation problems, culture shock, psychoses on a religious basis, coping with cultural differences, relationships between people from other cultures or differently diagnosed mental disorders with a cultural background.

Specificity of cultural problems

The patient’s problems are often associated with a sense of rejection, humiliation or being treated as a kind of exotic in a new country or even a city far away from the place of origin. There are also communication problems related to different ways of expressing oneself.

Challenges related to a change of environment

When changing the environment, the patient may be exposed to a very high level of stress, jetlag, sleep problems or fear of people or communication in another language. Not every person is delighted with appreciating the advantages of another culture, i.e. the so-called honeymoon.

As part of cultural psychoeducation, several meetings are proposed to explain to the patient important issues related to functioning in a new environment and to teach them how to function.

Cultural Psychoeducation

Psychotherapeutic support for people from other cultures, on the other hand, are meetings that can take the form of support groups, but with less frequency. In a new place, such people lack support, because they are not embedded in the social system, or, for example, cultural differences in social relationships appear (let’s say the issues of gifts or revisits).

Cultural psychotherapy is a form of therapeutic assistance that takes into account cultural differences (in fact, psychotherapy conducted in another language can be called cultural psychotherapy).

The role of ethnopsychotherapy

Ethnopsychotherapy assumes the therapist’s knowledge of cultural differences at the level of the approach to mental health and knowledge of a different understanding of various disorders. It also assumes his openness to various forms of additional help and the willingness to cooperate with medical doctors treating a given disorder according to their knowledge of their culture.

IPSK Method Psychotherapy in the Cultural Context

Psychotherapy using the IPSK method is able to effectively help in each of these areas, as part of cultural psychoeducation, support for people with cultural differences, cultural psychotherapy. It was created on the basis of my interests and studies in the field of cultural psychology and psychology of religion, as well as ethnopsychiatry.

Psychotherapeutic Support for Women

(female sexual disorders, problems with setting boundaries, lack of security, planning motherhood, body image, female roles) is an additional area for psychotherapeutic work, which I have singled out for my own use and for the use of my patients.

Sexual Disorders and Boundary Issues

It is important to be able to talk openly and without embarrassment about various women’s difficulties, which are also culturally and socially associated with incomprehensible taboos or beliefs. Women can only learn femininity by observing and imitating them. However, it is difficult for them to look for examples worth following, because they are surrounded by myths about sacrifice — that you have to get used to pain, there is no place for such a thing as comfort in life, you cannot count on the support of men.

Maternity planning and body image

Focus on issues related to maternity planning and problems related to body image and female roles.

Cultural and social determinants

Considering women’s difficulties in cultural and social contexts, including conversations about taboos and beliefs about femininity.

Challenges in building relationships

Women do not have points of support, which further disturbs the m.in. external structures (in Poland, at the level of building male-female relations, there is a culture of violence and a culture of rape, as a fact functioning in the social mentality, which is additionally strengthened historically and morally). It is still difficult to talk about sexuality, which is, after all, the quintessence of the body, like sensuality. You don’t have to be sexually active to be sexual.

Duration and effectiveness of therapy

Psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic support, as well as psychotherapy of sexual disorders, can take from 2 to 5 years, depending on the problem (dyspareunia or vaginis, if they are associated with trauma, sexual harassment, personality disorders, fear of intimacy, can be treated for up to 10 years, but it brings results!).

Individual Approach in the IPSK Method

Psychotherapy using the IPSK method allows you to select appropriate guidelines for the patient that give him support and allow him to provide psychotherapeutic support, which in the case of planning a pregnancy or the pregnancy itself cannot be confrontational psychotherapy. It is individually adjusted.

Psychoeducation

(sudden crisis, chronic illness, border problems)

Application

This is a method that should give the patient maximum support in the form of knowledge and diagnosis of difficulties during several meetings. Many people who do not participate in psychotherapy are helpless in situations when something unexpected happens, e.g. in a loved one. They do not know how to help her, what attitude to have, where to seek help, what psychotherapy is about or how they work, or what side effects medications prescribed by a psychiatrist may have.

Long-term psychotherapy

(personality disorders, anxiety disorders, neuroses, mood disorders, dissociative disorders):

Characteristics

It is a form of psychotherapeutic assistance that usually lasts from 3 to 5.5 years. It focuses on the mechanisms reproduced within personality disorders, which are usually associated with other types of disorders. It is focused on confrontation and supporting new forms of responding to different situations in order to go beyond established patterns of behavior.

Personality disorders are favored by constant constructs of behaviour and experiences that the patient repeats over and over again. Psychotherapy forces him to leave them. It is very mentally demanding for the patient, until new mechanisms of behavior are consolidated, which are not self-destructive or destructive to others.

Disorders of this type arise through long-term exposure to crisis or trauma. They may also be related to situations when the environment of people affected by the disorder has led them to a state of learned helplessness or has not allowed them to mature into gender or social roles. Such people are often “frozen in time” and easily return to their behavioral loops.

IPSK Method Psychotherapy for Personality Disorders

Methodology and Objectives

Psychotherapy using the IPSK method creates a basis for people with severe disorders (but no, it cannot be treated as a substitute for hospitalization), so that they can then continue psychotherapy based more on confrontation and enduring the frustration associated with the psychotherapeutic relationship.

IPSK provides support and guidelines on how not to harm oneself and an understanding of what psychotherapy really is. It also shows boundaries in relationships with others and explains the mechanisms that a person reproduces.

Online psychological therapy

For people with personality disorders, psychotherapy using the IPSK method may last a maximum of 2 years after renegotiating the contract (with the possibility of negotiating a lower rate after one year). It is not recommended to continue psychotherapy with this method after 2 years, it is best to take a break and continue psychotherapy with another method (psychoanalysis, psychodynamic psychotherapy, psychodynamic and humanistic psychotherapy, CBT).

Psychotherapy is a process focused on a certain freedom, searching for oneself and often breaking conventions. This is psychotherapy m.in. in the humanistic, transcendental, existential and Jungian senses, as well as CBT (the so-called transgressions) to a certain extent.

Psychoanalysis also provides support in this, but it has grown more on the understanding of profound personality disorders. Psychotherapy with a focus on self-realization is intended for people who want to understand their potential and find possible ways to realize it.

In addition to psychotherapy, you can also take advantage of such forms of help as development workshops, coaching, mentoring. Psychotherapy using the IPSK method is also built on these methods, but it is used using slightly different techniques.

Psychotherapy for Self-Realization

Humanistic and Existential Approach

In psychotherapy focused on self-development, it is important to stick to Maslow’s Pyramid. First, we find ourselves at a given level of functioning, and then we think about what needs to be changed to reach the desired level. The goal can be good relationships with people or self-realization. The ways to do it are different, because everyone realizes their potential differently. It is also the search for happiness or pleasure in life (this is what Positive Psychology refers to). Psychotherapy using the IPSK method also enables such a form of psychotherapeutic work, which helps to achieve the above goals.