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ABOUT THERAPY

Our Therapeutic Goals: Happier, Healthier, Productive

 

The core mission of psychology, as defined by the American Psychological Association, is to help people live happier, healthier, and more productive lives. This is the foundation of our work together.

Through collaborative treatment and evidence-based psychotherapy methods, we aim to help you develop life-changing habits and gain powerful tools to navigate any of life's obstacles.

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Preparing for Your First Session

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Reflect on these three key questions:

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WHAT DO YOU WANT TO CHANGE?

  • What specific issues are currently bothering you or holding you back?

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  • WHAT ARE YOUR NEEDS?

  • Do you primarily need practical strategies and solutions?

  • Do you need a professional to be attuned to your pain and provide empathetic support?

  • Do you need to understand yourself or your thinking/behavioural patterns better?

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  • HOW WILL YOU KNOW THAT COUNSELLING HAS HELPED YOU?

  • What specific signs (feelings, actions, changes in relationships) will indicate your progress?

MODALITIES OF THERAPY AND MY APPROACH

CBT OR 'TALK' THERAPY

There are hundreds of Psychological modalities which fall into FIVE big categories:

  1. Dynamic Psychotherapy or Psychoanalysis focuses on changing problematic behaviours, feelings, and thoughts by discovering their unconscious meanings and motivations. The aim is to increase self-awareness and insights about ourselves and our relationships.

  2. Cognitive Therapies emphasise the understanding of negative beliefs or biased interpretations and aim at replacing them with helpful thinking. The therapist has an active role in counselling by promoting changes in his client's cognition.   

  3. Behavioural Therapies, focusing on the learning's role in reinforcing desirable behaviours.

  4. Humanistic therapy promotes the competence to make rational choices and develop to our maximum potential.

  5. Integrative Psychotherapy. Contemporary approaches emphasise the theoretical conceptualisation common to CBT and Dynamic approaches and establish a new formulation. 

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My Agenda:

An excellent therapeutic practice would integrate Evidence-Based strategies with the latest research in Psychology, such as Virtual Reality tools, Mindfulness and Neuropsychology Based interventions alongside Insight and 'talk' therapies (which have also proven to be efficient in facilitating a change and enhancing self-awareness). 

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According to comparative research comparing the abundance of modalities, a few factors predict a successful therapy. It seems that the most critical factor predicting a successful treatment is the therapeutic alliance:

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"The research indicates that effective therapists form a strong therapeutic alliance across the range of patients seen in therapy... The most important aspect of effective therapy is that the patient and the therapist work together to help the patient reach their goals in therapy".

(Dr. Bruce E. Wampold "How Psychotherapy Works", American Psychological Association.   https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2009/12/wampold)

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Therefore, Ronit encourages her clients to discuss their issues with her openly, be authentic in their relationship in their session, and learn how to negotiate different expectations and needs to create a safe place for them. 

Female Patient
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