I help with
- unexplained heightened anxiety, either constant or in specific situations or around a specific topic
- sleep problems: difficulty falling asleep, night-time and early-morning awakenings (insomnia), excessive sleepiness (hypersomnia), sleep-related anxiety — using CBT for insomnia (CBT-I)
- panic attacks
- specific phobias (animals, natural environment, blood-injection-injury, situational)
- social anxiety (situations involving scrutiny, others' expectations, or humiliation)
- a sense that life has no meaning
- persistently low mood without apparent cause
- persistently reduced physical and cognitive activity, low energy, without apparent cause
- feelings of worthlessness, excessive or unfounded guilt
- reduced interest and pleasure in all or almost all activities
- emotional burnout
- persistently reduced concentration, indecisiveness
- difficulties of emigration and relocation: adjustment stress in a new country and culture, loneliness and loss of your usual social circle, job change or loss, finding your path in a new place
- reduced control over content consumption (television, streaming platforms, social media, messengers, news sites)
- reduced control over eating or drinking (excluding alcoholism and eating disorders)
- reduced control over masturbation and consumption of erotic or pornographic content
Psychological interventions for these symptoms are carried out alongside or after a general medical examination (sometimes including a psychiatric consultation) and after ruling out medical causes of the physical problems and other etiologies.
- excessive thoughts, feelings, or worry about physical symptoms—regardless of whether the client has a physical illness.
Worth noting. Modern pop psychology has done a great deal to find psychological causes for virtually any somatic problem. In today's science, there is not enough data for such sweeping generalizations.
- difficulty coping with overwhelming emotions in various situations and controlling how they are expressed
- increased aggression
- increased irritability
- a persistent feeling of emptiness
- emotional burnout, persistently reduced motivation to do anything—specific or general
- difficulty with assertive behavior: standing up for your rights without infringing on the rights of others; defending your boundaries
- difficulty making a decision or decisions
- low self-esteem, a sense of worthlessness
- with a partner, including after infidelity
- with parents and children
- with other people
- with yourself, self-acceptance
