EVERYTHING IS JUST TOO MUCH FOR ME TODAY. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! I’M STARTING NOW.
But what actually happens here? And will it really help me move forwards?
What happens here will be determined by you together with your personal psychologist. It is an exchange in which you determine the content and the tempo. The counselling is completely tailored to your wishes.
Whether it will help you with your problem depends on several things: Do my own timing, my motivation and the desired goals all match? It is the perspective that does it! A good contact with the counsellor is a necessary basis.
No matter what conflict you are burdened with – whether it is that you are a woman with size 9 feet and you can’t find any shoes that fit, that the demands of your job are simply too much for you or that you are clueless as a father of a family with a wife who has left you.
Any issue can be addressed through counselling. There are no right and wrong here.
It is always right to seek for impulses about how to find clarity, strength and new courage.
If your issue is too complex and urgent, this will become apparent in the counselling and you will be able to create a plan with your personal counsellor about how to seek proper support on-site.
In any case, you can only be on the right track here. Talking about the problem openly is the only condition.
The most important thing is listening (or even reading).
In your chatroom, you have a safe place to finally get everything off your chest and get your thoughts and feelings into order in the telling (writing or talking).
This will bring you relief and a clarification of the situation first of all. Depending on your issue, you will also be given pointers as to what can help you in your situation. Depending on the working focus, your online psychologist has valuable methods that can help you thin out your chaos: pleasant and reassuring discussions, mental strategies, reflexion tasks and simple exercises – up to relaxation units in the live chat with video – the range is wide and you can try things out to find out what helps you.
Of course, counselling in front of a technical terminal feels different to sitting in a room with the person. Corporal/energetic presence, body language and non-verbal cues play an important role in face-to-face counselling and therapies.
This is why online counselling is to be considered a very effective complement.
This counselling particularly stimulates the person’s own reflection, thought and mental and emotional ordering capacities.
In addition, the quick contact through messaging has an emotionally supportive effect and gives a structure that is particularly necessary in stressful periods.
In general, online counselling gives flexibility regarding time and location, as well as anonymity regarding your request for counselling.
In addition, the perceived distance can generate a paradoxical effect of closeness, which moves things forwards faster.
Every medium that you can use in the online counselling has further advantages:
The main criteria for counselling is that you are experiencing burdens that do not have a pathological character.
This means you should feel capable of addressing your issue independently in your everyday life with the support of this help, without feeling massively limited. Every psychotherapy or psychological treatment aims to heal a mental illness. Online counselling cannot make this claim.
With mynd.ch, you will find clinical psychologists who can use their expert knowledge to determine whether a person requesting help is stable enough, or whether (additional) therapeutic support on-site is required.
The counselling lasts for as long as you want it to.
You can decide on a weekly basis how you wish to continue. It is helpful if you stipulate your expectations regarding duration and intensity right from the start. Goals that are defined together give direction.
Several things can affect whether you are satisfied with the counselling, for example:
There is a solution for everything: Please express your complaints directly during the counselling.
Associated strong feelings must be taken into account!
Change the medium, the fee or make appointments that are tailored to your needs. In rare cases, if the relation just doesn’t want to work, a change of psychologist can also help.
Every shared path comes to an end – or maybe not.
Some people requesting help take a break due to professional or private reasons, and only get back into contact after several months. It is perfectly normal.
Even a departure with a good outcome does not always have to be definitive. The “sparring-partner” for a particular phase in your life can continue to remain available in the background.
Change requires time. A single discussion can make you feel better.
This is one of the most widely used methods in psychology. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a powerful coaching tool, providing us with the ability to rid ourselves of negative behaviours and habits, and overcome fears and anxieties. Carolyn Jost, FSP (Swiss Charter for Psychology) psychologist, psychotherapist in training, explains.
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