How to get ready for the session
So you have scheduled a session with me and you are a bit anxious. Your anxiety can be reduced if you start preparing for the session.
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Life Put on Hold
I work in CBT modality for many years. I love cognitive-behavioral therapy because it allows me to apply structured approach to my client’s problems. Sensations, feelings, cognitions, behavior – these are the domains I analyse when I have requests to “make things the way they were”. To these domains I add another one – the life “around” the client (their financial circumstances, job, housing, people that are in contact with them). This approach helps me to help my clients to become their own therapists. Read more
Мой вебинар
Для того, чтобы получить максимум от моего вебинара, я рекомендую ознакомиться со следующими материалами:
Help is around the corner
If you have received a link to this page that means I can not help you with my psychotherapy services.
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Online psychotherapy – thoughts
Online psychotherapy via online platforms,
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Merry texts
“Merry” Texts are psychologically antonymous to “sad” texts. Read more
Psychological counseling
Psychological counseling is and “interaction with a client to explore and offer direct advice about affective, cognitive, or behavioral problems and to reach solutions”.
(APA Dictionary of Psychology)
Dark texts
Dark texts («тёмные») may be considered the manifestation of the Picture of the World of the world of a person who may experience twilight state or similar conditions which may be caused or not caused by epilepsy as a neurological disorder referred to as “epileptoid” in Russian psychiatry (Ганнушкин П.Б.). Read more
“Sad” texts
“Sad” texts are singled out as based upon Depressive Disorder characterized by “the presence of sad, empty, or irritable mood, accompanied by somatic and cognitive changes” (DSM-5)
Linguistic markers are as follows: ‘quiet’, ‘lonely’, ‘pleasant smell’, ‘loss of money’, ‘death’, ‘stone’, ‘cold’.
“Beautiful” texts
“Beautiful” texts are based on the manifestation of the picture of the world of a person who may have Mental Health Status resembling Histrionic Personality Disorder (Personality Disorders – Cluster B) characterized by pervasive and excessive emotionality and attention-seeking behavior (DSM-5, 2013, p. 667).
“Beautiful” texts have such language markers as ‘color’, ‘appearance of a person’, ‘gestures’, ‘speech’, ‘feelings and emotions’, ‘humiliations and sufferings’, ‘relatives’, ‘comparison with an animal’, ‘inside a house’, etc.
