Some people are more sensitive than others, the more sensitive and empathic we are, the more successfully & convincingly we can express ourselves artistically through our performing arts representations (music, dance, acting etc…) at the same time, however, the more we will be affected by positive and negative external factors. These external factors or “stressors” can lead to a psychological and emotional overload, which can manifest itself in different ways, inadvertently influencing our performing skills.
Psychological factors always influence how we function physically… and vice-versa.

One or two therapy or coaching sessions can work wonders if pressures are negatively affecting artistic abilities such as lack of concentration and memory depletion (scripts and scores increasingly difficult to remember), nervousness (e.g. stage-fright, insomnia, general anxiety and panic attacks, headaches, stomach pains), mechanical stiffness (e.g. vocal or performance difficulties due to cramping), … etc.

What counselling is offering is to find solutions, together with the client, in the shortest time possible so that there is no interruption to studies, exams or professional engagements, that adapt to individual personal and vocational aspirations.

Counselling methods

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• Humanistic (Rogers) & hypnosis (Ericksonian)
• Short Term “Solution focussed” Therapy
• Process and Embodiment-focussed Psychology (or PEP® after Dr. M. Bohne, for details please see www.dr-michael-bohne.de)

 

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), humanistic psychotherapy and / or Ericksonian hypnosis, supplemented by PEP, can be used efficiently and successfully for treating divers reactive conditions such as stage-fright, social anxiety, generalized anxiety disorder and phobias, as well as reactive depression, adjustment disturbances, neuroses, trauma, PTSD, somatic disturbances, concentration and memory difficulties etc.

Note: If you are seeking a med. psych. specialising in PEP® , I will gladly recommend you one.

My areas of psychotherapeutic intervention

(Competence recognised by the Freiburg Medical Association in Breisgau, Germany)

– General psychopathology: review and conclusions
– Documentation, epidemiology, organic psychoses
– Emotional disorders
– Addiction / addiction disorders
– Psychosomatic, neuroses, phobias
– Stress Disorders, Behavioral Disorders
– Personality disorders
– Psychological disorders related to different age groups (child psychiatry, geriatric)
– Legal aspects of forensics, social psychiatry
– Pharmacology, psychopharmacology

(References in ICD 10: International Classification of Mental Disorders, Clinical Diagnostic Guidelines)

Fees: 70 Euros per session (90 minutes)