Psychological services

Psychological counseling of a couple

The psychological counseling of couples is addressed to couples who are going through difficult life situations, interpersonal conflicts, communication and inter-relationship problems, stressful situations. The causes of these situations can be multiple: different priorities regarding the family budget, different parenting styles in raising and educating children, different and unequal way of managing household and administrative tasks, problems of couple and sexual intimacy, differences in meeting emotional needs, the way they want to spend their free time, differences of opinion, the relationship with family friends and their families, jealousy and insecurity, blame and mutual criticism, infidelity, control of other's behavior, possessiveness, unfulfilled promises, unrealistic expectations. All can lead to alienation from one another and problems in the couple, to loneliness in two and episodes of sadness, revolt, upset. The partners want to make changes in the current situation for a better functioning and evolution in two.

As partners lose their faith that they may feel loved, desired and appreciated, they make psychological or behavioral moves to protect themselves from this painful state, further strengthening their alienation. Relationships in which the partners have a deep connection, accept their diversity and difference of opinion, understand and respect the need of the other, maintain emotional and physical intimacy, express their thoughts clearly, have a high chance of being successful couples.

Through the couple's psychological counseling, you will gain support, support and guidance in resolving existing conflicts, improving emotional intimacy and strengthening communication. The couple's psychological counseling focuses on helping you develop skills to create and maintain a healthy relationship.

A couple therapy session lasts an hour and a half. Generally, 15-20 meetings are required, but the number of sessions may vary depending on the problem areas of the relationship, the chronicity of the problems, the personality of the partners, their objectives regarding the relationship, etc.

Psychological counseling specific to children and adolescents

This refers to providing support and guidance to children and young people in order to successfully overcome and solve the problems specific to each age, problems that may occur both at home and in school environment or in relationships with other children.

Counseling sessions help children and adolescents learn adaptation processes in school, managing interpersonal and communication problems, overcoming performance, intellectual and relationship anxiety, learning emotional self-control, personal development and optimization.

Parental counseling

In our role as a parents there are many things that raise us question marks and make us doubt the correctness of our actions in relation to our own children. There are times when our reactions to children's behaviors can hinder communication and relationships with them, and they are more reluctant than children to be willing to communicate with us as parents. It is said that "The road to hell is paved with good intentions", we parents always want the good of our children, we think we know what will help them to have a better, easier life than ours and we try to make them understand this is done by imposing rules that children may not understand and it is difficult for them to accept. That is why to call for external help, when we feel that we are losing communication with our child, that we no longer listen and hear each other, is more a proof of responsibility and clarity of the parental act than of weakness and lack of parental competences. Parental counseling helps you identify the educational style you apply in raising and educating your children, the influence that this educational process exerts on your own children, the changes that are needed to increase the efficiency in education, and what parental skills you may need to develop for a relationship based on trust, effective communication and lots of love with your child.

Individual counseling on specific issues

The course of our lives is not always a smooth one, full of successes and accomplishments. Often during our lives we encounter situations of all kinds, which are difficult for us to face and to find the best solution. This may be due to lack of experience, lack of resources and skills specific to the problem, or perhaps because we are simply exhausted and have no psycho-emotional energy to think rationally and make sound decisions. These situations can make us feel sad, angry, anxious, insecure, tend to isolate ourselves from family and friends, to miss or have frequent delays in the workplace, to give up the pleasant activities of our life and so on.

Working with a psychologist on these issues will allow you to overcome these stages and gain the freedom to choose, to think and to act in a mature and beneficial way for you. Individual therapy aims to achieve a better control of one's life, a more flexible adaptation to the changes that occur.

The individual psychological counselor is addressed to people who encounter such situations in life and fail to deal with them alone: ​​

• High sadness and depressive symptoms
• You go through difficult life situations, losing your job, losing someone you love
• Feeling of worthlessness or powerlessness, distrust in one's own person
• Problems in identifying and managing one's emotions, intense anger, revolt
• Anxiety, fear
• Problems of exploiting one's own potential, procrastination (delaying tasks), lack of motivation, learned helplessness
• Problems of adaptation to a new workplace, a new home, a new culture
• Relational difficulties in the relationship with parents, life partner, co-worker, boss, children
• Confusion about one's identity
• Demonstrating harmful behaviors for you, such as physical self-harm, drug or alcohol abuse
• Eating behavior problems

Individual psychtherapy is a collaborative process, in which the psychologist and the client establish together the topics for discussions and the way to approach the problems.

Psychological counseling on migration issues

Migration is a universal phenomenon that exists with the appearance of human beings on earth. People migrate from one place to another for many reasons, such as improving living conditions, escaping debt and poverty, living new cultural experiences, political issues in the country of origin, natural disasters, war, career opportunities, the performance of the education or medical system, racism or discrimination, safety and security, etc. The lack of preparation for this phenomenon, the difficulties of adapting to the new environment, the administrative complexity of the local system, the difficulties and barriers created by the lack of knowledge of the language of the country in which you emigrated, the cultural differences and their impact on the individual, the type of character / personality of the individual (flexible easily adaptable to new, or rigid with fixed points of view, difficult to adapt to new life situations). Living these situations in the migration process, they can lead, if not well managed to negative consequences related to mental well-being.

Moving to another country, in a culture different from that of the home country can be an interesting experience for people who like to explore and discover new things. But for others it could be a source of stress and worries due to the pressures imposed by the prospect of a new life. Migration to another country also brings a lot of stress, called Stress of acculturation, often being defined as "cultural shock". In other words, the people who suffer from the stress of acculturation consider that the host country makes them feel bad, is not welcoming and does not feel comfortable. There is also the stress of re-acculturation, which is met by people returning to their country of origin after living a long time abroad.

Migration can be a difficult and stressful transition for some:

• Feelings of anxiety, fatigue, depression, isolation;
• Confusion about less familiar things, insecurity, routine;
• The feeling or situations that you cannot cope with;
• Loss of social support, friends, family, status, material goods;
• The feeling of rejection of the host culture, living with the feeling of "emigrant" or "being different";
• The appearance of cultural conflict;
• Chronic stress, trauma or mental exhaustion;
• Problems and intra-family conflicts, divorce, separation.

Psychological counseling can help to better adapt in the country of emigration, to understand the cultural differences, to develop skills and competences to better deal with the status of emigrant, to be a foreigner in a foreign country. Psychological counseling helps to choose the best solutions to cope with the transition period and to develop the skills of psychological adjustment and adjustment to the new situation.