Psychological consultations

Our clients come to us with various issues and expectations. They are often not sure what kind of help and what specialist they need (a psychologist, a psychotherapist, a psychiatrist, a nutrition specialist or a coach). For that reason, the first or a couple of first meetings with the client is always an initial consultation. The goal of the initial consultation(s) is to get to know each other, define difficulties, define if and how we may support the client, propose the best matched methods of working.

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As every initial action, the initial consultation is followed by further steps. Depending on the situation, the steps may include:

psychological aid meetings, focused on one issue or problem, usually held within a definite period of time

individual psychotherapy sessions building a longer and deeper process of change

couple or family therapy sessions when the problem covers rather a relationship or a family system than a single person

support for parents and teenagers, psychological aid in behaviour problems

developmental, coaching, training meetings focused on developing specific skills

psychological and business consultations if the problem areas concern mainly the professional sphere

psychiatric consultations when the change requires medical support

Initial psychological consultation is the first meeting or several meetings of the psychologist with the client. During those meetings, we discuss the issues that brought the client to our office, why they decided to seek aid at this very moment, what problems or difficulties they face and what they expect to achieve during the therapy. In the course of those meetings we get to know each other better. The client has an opportunity to learn about the forms of psychological help that will be appropriate for him and ask any questions they may have. The client decides whether he or she wants to start psychological work on regular basis and in which direction.

Psychological aid

Psychological aid consists of several or a dozen of meetings with a psychologist or a psychotherapist devoted to various difficulties in the life of the client, dilemmas related to a specific issue, solving current problems or supporting the client in a crisis situation. Focusing on a specific issue and limitation of duration in time are characteristic for psychological aid. This form of psychological help turns out to be sufficient for many clients to move on. Sometimes it also leads the client to a decision to deepen his or her work as part of psychotherapy or couple therapy.

The main goal of psychological aid and at the same time the role of the psychologist are primarly:

explaining the nature of problems and identifying their causes,

psychoeducation, i.e. equipping the client with knowledge covering a specific area (eg. characteristics of functioning of adolescents in a particular developmental period, emotions of persons in mourning or supporting a person suffering from betrayal or separation),

broadening the perspective, which helps in taking distance and deeper understanding of the issue,

identification of customer resources (internal and external) and assistance in using them more effectively,

supporting the client in finding the right direction (from his point of view).

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The psychologist discusses the possibilities offered by our team and advises the appropriate specialist. The therapist discusses also practical aspects of the suggested form of psychological help, such as the frequency and duration of meetings, costs or methods of canceling the sessions. The therapist also answers the questions the client may ask. Together they define issues to deal with during the upcoming meetings. It may happen, of course, that after the initial consultation the client decides not to enter into further psychotherapeutic work or that our team is not able to help the client in the issues they brought up. In such situation, the psychologist proposes other solutions to the client: names other specialists with appropriate expertise, aid centres and institutions, free aid centres, etc.