My Method

I feel that discomfort is part of a continuum, and no matter where you are, there are obviously different strategies and approaches to work with depending on the level of disorder you are in, but I want to help you to de-stigmatise what difficulties you are experiencing.

It’s like an untreated wound, at the beginning you have a cut, the pain spreads and that innocent wound starts to get infected, around it starts to get red, pus comes out… and this could keep getting worse, right? I understand that not all wounds get topionic, we wash it with soap every so often and keep it covered during the day to heal as fast and as well as possible, sometimes our body is resilient enough to heal itself, or the external conditions favour that process to take place by itself, but when it is not….

Are we not looking to add elements that promote healing?

Emotional health is not very different. Disturbance of the self has very diverse origins, what keeps the discomfort at present does not.

From a humanistic perspective, we understand that the therapeutic process involves a philosophical and holistic view of the human being, observing the values and nature of the human condition. This process focuses on the person, their experiences and their meaning, and is committed to the development of each person’s potential.

From the cognitive-behavioural side, it is understood that every human being’s experience (situations, stimuli, etc.) generates a thought (we put words to what happens to us or what we experience) and this thought causes us to feel (emotions are generated) and to act (we take action). This approach focuses on the demands and inferences associated with the situations we experience and helps us to question and accept them.

The therapeutic process involves making you aware of the different processes mentioned above. Although it is true that, in most cases, they are so integrated that they seem automatic and immovable, it is important to give the human being autonomy to deal with difficulties using other tools than those already learnt.

In psychology there are many currents that try to achieve the same purpose: well-being with oneself. From my point of view, I do not consider that some are better than others, despite the fact that there is more scientific evidence in the different currents, for me the important thing is to speak the same language as the patient.

Carl Rogers (1902-1987) was an American psychologist and initiator of the humanistic approach to psychology.

Albert Ellis (1913-2007) was an American cognitive psychotherapist who developed Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy (REBT).

In a survey of psychology professionals, they came to be considered the first and second most influential psychotherapists in history, respectively, even ahead of Sigmund Freud.

 

  1. Carl Rogers – Humanism
  2. Albert Ellis – Cognitive Behavioural
  3. Sigmund Freud – Psychoanalysis

 

As I mentioned in my presentation, I have based my training on the first two: Humanism and Cognitive-Behaviouralism.

Work based on 3 levels: acquisition of tools, cognitive restructuring and change of life philosophy. (It should be noted that the greater the depth of the work, the more stable and lasting the changes are understood to be).

Now, imagine a situation that could be real for any of us.

For example, I get very nervous before exams. Let’s see how we would work on the situation:

A first level of work would be to learn to calm ourselves through breathing or cognitive distraction to regulate anxiety before the exam.

Acquire tools to deal with emotion.

A second level of work would involve becoming aware of our beliefs and questioning whether this teacher is really “sure to ask difficult questions” or “if I fail, it means I am not good at it”. Search for the reality, logic and usefulness of these thoughts and see to what extent they are in line with reality.

Acquire the ability to deal with thinking.

The third level, the deepest and most difficult to achieve, is to accept that even if I fail this exam I have the capacity to be happy, to do the things I like and to enjoy today. Maybe not exactly in the way I had imagined, but the capacity is there, maybe it comes from understanding that I can be happy regardless of my goals, successes, personal relationships, achievements or objectives; it comes from understanding that by the mere fact of being a person and existing, I already have the capacity to be happy and to enjoy today. “Whatever I do, whatever I achieve”.

Acquire the ability to deal with myself and my expectations.

In all therapy, the ideal is that after contacting us and resolving initial doubts we can arrange a first visit and the objectives of this are:

For you: that you feel listened to and understood, that you understand and can appreciate how I work and, above all, that we speak the same language. Finally, that you see a little light on the way (however far away it may be).

For me: that I can collect biographical data (who you are), make a psychopathological assessment (what is wrong with you) and carry out a functional analysis of your behaviour (why you act the way you do). Finally, to give you a feedback where I show you that I have understood the difficulty and how I feel I can help you.

The following sessions last approximately 55 minutes. The work in session will normally be accompanied by homework that will be adjusted to what I as a professional psychologist consider can help you to get closer to wellbeing. What generates change is the sum of the work, both inside and outside the sessions.

Catalan, Spanish and English.

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