Please contact us by email if you would like to arrange an initial consultation or sign up for a consultation hour. Please provide us with your postal address, mobile phone number and, if possible, a time slot when you can best be reached by phone. Please also let us know your health insurance details.
If we have capacity in the foreseeable future, we will be happy to offer you an appointment for a consultation. During this consultation, we will discuss, among other things, when psychotherapy can begin or whether another therapist or a different form of therapy would be more suitable for you.
If, for geographical or personal reasons, you prefer to use video consultation or digital media to contact us, it is currently mandatory for patients with statutory health insurance to attend the initial consultation in person, as the data on your health insurance card must be entered into our system. If you have private health insurance, please enquire about the applicable terms and conditions with your private health insurance provider.
Please note that you (or anyone accompanying you) will not be allowed to enter the practice if you have cold or flu symptoms. In this case, please make use of the video consultation service.
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We are state-approved psychotherapists with health insurance approval and a doctor's number.
If you have health insurance, our services are covered by the medical services catalogue. If you have a valid health insurance card, the initial consultation is free of charge. Please remember to bring your valid insurance card with you to your first appointment.
Psychotherapy has proven effective in treating a range of health impairments and stresses that affect the psyche. These include anxiety, phobias, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorders, reactions to traumatic experiences and psychosomatic illnesses.
Patients or clients are often referred to us because internal or neurological diagnostics have not been able to identify any organic causes. In the opposite case, we refer patients to general practitioners and specialists to clarify whether a physical condition is underlying certain symptoms.
Psychotherapy has proven effective in the (co-)treatment of conditions such as pain, asthma, allergies, coronary heart disease and its consequences. It is also effective in post-hospital treatment for alcohol and drug addiction.
There is not always one underlying cause for a disease; often it is a multifactorial process that leads to the development and maintenance of a disease.
Psychological support in coping with and processing serious and chronic physical illnesses or disabilities is often the focus of treatment, e.g. a disability or impairment that remains after a serious accident. In these cases, the aim is to address the psychological consequences of the accident and how to deal with the disability. This often involves promoting psychological resilience, i.e. the mental strength of the patient or client.
An indication can only be made in person. Telephone or written enquiries are not suitable for determining an indication.
Behavioural therapy (according to Reinecker) encompasses a whole range of special treatment methods based on a variety of scientific studies and research findings. These methods help patients to initiate specific changes and achieve relevant goals. These goals include, among others:
- behavioural characteristics, e.g. active social behaviour, coping with anxiety-inducing situations, reduction of addictive substances (cigarettes, alcohol, drugs)
- the nature of feelings, e.g. helping someone feel less helpless, anxious or depressed
- Changes in thought patterns, e.g. by learning problem-solving strategies or developing more confident thought patterns
- The way physical complaints are dealt with, e.g. changes in the experience of pain or taking medication as prescribed by a doctor
- The way of coping, e.g. helping a chronically ill person or coping at work or in training
Behavioural therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy refer to the here and now, i.e. to the current situation and its conditions. Important starting points are a person's specific behaviour patterns and perspectives. Past events can be included in the search for change strategies if they are relevant to the person's current experience (e.g. if past events trigger blockages in current situations).
The central goals of behavioural therapy are to help change blocking thought and behaviour patterns and to support the learning of goal-oriented strategies. With the help of behavioural therapy, patients should generally gain more control over their lives.
In our work, we integrate the therapeutic methods we use under the umbrella of behavioural therapy as a guideline procedure, insofar as this is in accordance with the applicable legal standards.
Hypnosis is defined as a state of muscular and mental relaxation. In this state, it is often easier to bring about changes in behaviour and experience than is the case in the ‘normal waking state’. The suggestions used in medical hypnosis have a more intense and lasting effect than the usual instructional conversation. Since not everyone responds to hypnosis in the same way, it must first be determined whether and how the client responds to hypnotically induced relaxation. Hypnosis can be used as a healing method or as a supportive method in coaching (e.g. to overcome fear of speaking). Beforehand, some preconceptions about hypnotherapy/hypnosis need to be overcome: in a state of hypnosis, the patient is neither without will nor asleep. On the contrary, many patients report that during hypnotherapy treatment they are, in certain respects, very attentive to inner processes (e.g. vivid memories). Hypnosis as a healing method helps, for example, to overcome blockages, fears, the consequences of traumatic experiences or other stressful memories. Hypnosis can also be used, for example, to treat fears of medical treatment or planned surgical procedures (such as at the dentist). Dentists are also increasingly using hypnosis or relaxation techniques. We are also happy to support patients in addition to dental hypnosis treatment.
Biofeedback is a method of visualising physical processes (e.g. reactions to stress) on a laptop or PC screen. This is done with the aid of a technical unit consisting of a measuring unit, transmitter, receiver and software. The feedback helps, for example, to recognise stress signals, and patients can learn to improve their ability to relax by watching the feedback on the screen. Biofeedback is suitable for psychosomatic complaints and stress-related health problems, anxiety, panic, high blood pressure and sleep disorders. The indication and how it works are explained in detail during the initial consultation.
EMDR is an abbreviation for a psychotherapeutic procedure called Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing. EMDR is a method used, among other things, for patients who have experienced trauma (e.g. accident, murder or death of a close relative/rape or abuse or war).
The central element of this method is ‘bilateral stimulation’ following structured preparation. The patient is confronted with certain memories (in small doses). The traumatic events are relived in the imagination and can then be processed. Neuropsychology has now proven this effect. EMDR is now internationally recognised as a scientific method for treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and was recommended by the Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance for victims (and their relatives) after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The method has been recognised as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder since 2015.
This form of therapy can also help to process traumatic experiences and better understand the symptoms of PTSD.
It is a combination of therapeutic methods that have proven helpful in processing traumatic experiences and treating trauma-related disorders, e.g. EGO state therapy and EMDR.
Therapeutic anchoring is a subliminal therapy method from the spectrum of hypnotherapy. It can be used, for example, for certain addictions, chronic pain, trauma-related disorders, anxiety and depression.
Psychotherapy/behavioural therapy, as we understand it, does not claim to be the best or only effective method.
The use of medication (e.g. antidepressants) may well be indicated, even during ongoing therapy. In many cases, a combination of medication and behavioural therapy is the method of choice and has proven effective in many treatments.
We therefore recommend that you follow your doctor's medication instructions. Your family doctor or specialist should be informed of any side effects or interactions.
Couples therapy
Couples therapy is not covered by health insurance. You will be billed for this service. However, the partner of a patient can be included in ongoing behavioural therapy.
Non-medical services
These include services from the spectrum of ‘training’, “coaching”, ‘couples therapy’ and all other non-medical services that are not listed in your health insurance company's catalogue of services. If in doubt, please check with your local health insurance company or refer to your contract documents.
Certificates
Certificates and attestations issued at your own request are to be paid for privately. This also applies to expert opinions and diagnostic tests commissioned by the patient themselves, e.g. for occupational aptitude testing or for submission to official bodies and authorities.
Missed appointments
If you fail to cancel an agreed appointment in good time, your health insurance fund will not cover the costs of the missed therapy session. The therapy agreements regulate how to proceed in such cases.