ENGLISH SUMMARY

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Family Therapy and Individual Psychotherapy for English-speaking Patients

• Therapeutic sessions in English.
• Prices are negotiable.
• The therapies focus on the infant patient and on the context of the whole family.

Main fields of therapy:

1. Families and Children with Psychosomatic Issues
Main problems:

Chronic headaches and abdominal pains, nausea,
Food intake problems;
High sickness rate without a clear organic cause, allergies, eczemas;
Immunity disorders,
School-related phobias, anxieties and disquiet in children etc.

Services:
• Family support and help in finding a suitable approach to and treatment of symptoms
• Close work with children, building up their competences
• Focus on siblings
• Narrative therapy: narrating stories, family stories, trajectories of problems
• Externalization techniques
• Pepa the Pig – helping and therapeutic tool
2. Families with Children who Suffer from Severe or Chronic Diseases
Problems:

Severe acute diseases, tumor diseases (leukemia, CNS tumors etc);
Chronic diseases, e.g. diabetes mellitus, cystic fibrosis, epilepsy;
Progressive diseases and diseases with unfavorable prognosis, e.g. muscle diseases.

Services:
• Strengthening family relationships in new difficult situations
• Support and guidance
• Creating space for reevaluating new situations
• Searching for new competences and resources; strengthening cohesion and motivating cooperation
3. Parent Counseling
• Counseling, “chats about the kids”
• Guidance in divorce situations and other sever family situations
• Counseling in situations of ethnic, cultural or other difference
• Other forms of family
• Couples therapy
4. Individual Therapy

With emphasis on the context of the family.

Pepa the Pig

• Pepa is a pink plush toy that comes alive when around children.
• Pepa is a friend of all children; it understands children and their troubles and helps them to get rid of them.
• Pepa has a magical belly where all the troubles can be thrown away.
• Pepa can write a letter and talk to the parents.
• Pepa keeps company with sick children in bed.
• Pepa accompanies children in emergency rooms.
• Pepa instigates imagination, fantasy, “good magic”.
• Pepa invites both children and parents to be proactive and fight the problems.
• Pepa can work in the context of the whole family, bolstering trust and solidarity with its playfulness.