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13 results for “relationships”

1. Article

   What Is the Abandonment Schema?

   The abandonment schema shows itself in close relationships through anxiety, jealousy and clinging behaviour. Its signs, its origins and the therapy process.

2. Article

   The Hidden Messages Beneath Arguments

   Arguments in relationships are rarely about small things; they are often the language of unmet emotional needs. How to read the messages beneath them.

3. Article

   Fear of Being Alone: The Abandonment Schema

   The fear of being alone is sometimes a trace of the abandonment schema. How the schema shows up in relationships and how it is worked on in schema therapy.

4. Article

   Growing Up with an Unpredictable Parent

   How does growing up with an inconsistent, unpredictable parent shape the way we trust, relate to others and regulate our emotions as adults?

5. Article

   The “I Must Always Be Strong” Belief: The Invisible Weight of the Burden

   The belief that “I must always be strong” looks like resilience from the outside, while loneliness and burnout build up inside. Where this belief comes from and how to loosen it.

6. Area of practice

   Emotion regulation

   Working on intense, sudden waves of emotion and automatic responses such as suppressing feelings or emotional eating.

7. Approach

   Schema Therapy

   An integrative approach that focuses on understanding and changing patterns of feeling, thinking and relating (schemas) that form in childhood and repeat in adulthood.

8. Article

   Are You a Perfectionist?

   Perfectionism is a common trait, both in everyday life and in the therapy room. When is it helpful, and when does it become exhausting?

9. Article

   Why Go to Therapy?

   Therapy isn't only for moments of crisis. On what therapy is, who it can help and how the process works.

10. Area of practice

    Anxiety disorders

    Being constantly on edge, worry you can't control and tension in the body: working with anxiety that narrows everyday life.

11. Area of practice

    Obsessive-compulsive disorder

    Working on unwanted, distressing thoughts that come to mind and the repeated behaviours used to ease the distress they cause.

12. Area of practice

    Phobias and social anxiety

    Working on excessive fear of particular objects or situations and on intense anxiety about how others will judge you.

13. Area of practice

    Relationship and couple difficulties

    Working with couples and individuals on recurring arguments, breakdowns in communication, trust issues and feeling lonely within a relationship.