Individual psychotherapy

Individual psychotherapy, unlike psychological aid, is usually a longer and deeper work with the client, during which the client has an opportunity to look at their problems from different perspectives, see the way in which experiences from the past may influence what is currently happening in their lives, discover the way they function, what they feel or what stops them from making significant changes in their lives.

Psychoterapia indywidualna - Psychoterapeuci - Cynamonowa | Warszawa

Practically, every individual psychotherapy is different because we work on various issues and every client is a specific person. This results in using different methods of psychological work. The therapist, adjusting to the client’s needs, tailors the process of psychotherapy: reacts to the client’s needs, adjusts the pace of work, takes care of the way the client feels, proposes methods and techniques of work and controls the progress. Sometimes, psychotherapy consists of only a dozen of meetings with the psychologist, sometimes it takes several years of emotionally and intellectually intensive weekly sessions and involves accompanying the client in their progress, introducing key changes in life, taking up challenges or supporting them in coping with various losses.

At the beginning, we always define the goals of work and the terms of cooperation (schedule of meetings, payments, cancelling the sessions). During the psychotherapeutic process, we regularly discuss with the client whether the psychologist takes the needs of the client into consideration, how the client feels in the relationship with the therapist, if anything causes problems for the client or if the psychologist can change something to make the psychotherapy better and more effective. We also discuss the closing of the therapy in advance, as the therapy is a closed process. Usually, it is the client who decides that he or she do not further need support from the specialist and together with the psychotherapist summarises what happened during the process. Then the client and the therapist close the therapy and say goodbye to each other. In specific situations, the psychologist may let the client know that it is time to find the courage and cope by themselves with what life brings.

The two persons, the client and the therapist, meet in the therapist’s office, develop a relationship, make arrangements and define goals together and work on what causes suffering in the client’s life. Individual psychotherapy usually lasts at least six months, but often takes longer. We meet with the client once a week, at a set hour. Sometimes, for example when a crisis situation happens, more intensive forms of work with the psychologist are available (two sessions in a week, two sessions following one another). Less frequent schedule is also available (eg. one session in two weeks or one in a month), usually at the end of the therapeutic process. Each session lasts 50 minutes. If you seek help, contact us. The team of psychotherapists working at the Psycholodzy Cynamonowa Centre successfully combines caring about highest standards and the effectiveness of the process of psychotherapy, caring about safety and benefit of the client and their loved ones and commitment to maintaining ethics of the work of a psychologist and psychotherapist.