Institute Satori
Institute for psychotherapy and counselling
Psychotherapy helps us overcome various problems, enables us to understand and process traumas or important events, to get to know ourselves better and to be more flexible in our daily lives. Family patterns and childhood experiences shape most of our behavior in the present, our view of ourselves, of other people, and of life. Long-term psychotherapy can help make a real difference in creating meaningful relationships with others in our lives. This allows us to let go of old thoughts and behaviors that limit us and live more in accordance with our true nature.
Psychotherapy is a process that involves a confidential relationship between the psychotherapist and the client. The main goal here is for the client to explore emotions and thoughts together with the psychotherapist, which allows him to manage his life more satisfactorily and effectively. With the help of psychotherapy, a person better understands himself and thus strengthens personal autonomy and effectiveness in life.
Individual psychotherapy is a process designed to deeply process personal problems with the goal of lasting change. It comprehensively explores our inner world and personal experiences, as well as the ways in which we deal with ourselves, others and the world. The length of psychotherapy depends on the individual’s motivation, his need for change and can last for a longer time.
At the institute, we are aware of the uniqueness of each individual and the differences that exist between us. The institute employs therapists of various psychotherapeutic orientations, as we want to offer our clients a psychotherapeutic treatment that would be suitable for them as an individual. Different therapies can achieve similar goals through different methods and processes, but they all have in common that they put trust between the client and the therapist at the forefront, developing the ability to reflexively observe oneself, one’s problems and relationships, and emphasize the therapist’s warmth, empathy and acceptance of the client.
We also come from different psychotherapeutic orientations. We are aware that therapeutic techniques are important for an effective outcome of therapy, but research shows that we integrate them and look at a person holistically (emotionally, socially, different theories are integrated), we do not start from just one area, we use tools of different therapeutic directions.
People face all sorts of problems. These can be the result of everyday stressful life or the result of current or past events.
The reasons for engaging in psychotherapy can be:
stress, overwork and inability to relax;
To get involved in psychotherapy, you don’t need to know the reasons for your well-being, or to know what the problem is… Together, we will explore and create a path to a fuller, better quality of life.
Before entering psychotherapy, we ask ourselves how the psychotherapeutic meeting will take place and what we can expect from it.
At the first meeting, you learn how psychotherapy works, what you can expect, the way the psychotherapist works and whether psychotherapy suits you.
Introductory meetings are therefore intended for getting to know each other, defining the problem, getting to know the way of working.If we decide to continue the process, the therapist acquaints us with the principles of work and we form a joint therapeutic agreement.
Psychotherapeutic meetings take place regularly, usually for an hour, in a confidential psychotherapeutic relationship. The continuity of meetings is important because it ensures a continuous course of therapy and creates a sense of security.
Integrative relational psychotherapy is based on a holistic approach to the human being and encompasses the attitude towards psychotherapy, which affirms the inherent or natural value of each individual. It sees the person as a whole of emotional, behavioral, cognitive and physiological levels of functioning and social dimensions, and also addresses the spiritual dimension of life. It is based on the assumption that humans are relational beings who spend our entire lives looking for relationships with others and living with them in codependence, so the therapeutic relationship is an important part of therapy.
Integrative relational psychotherapy is directed towards the individual. The client is treated holistically, with an emphasis on his individuality. It combines or integrates the findings and methods of various psychotherapeutic schools, from psychodynamic, client-centered, behavioral, cognitive, family therapy, Gestalt therapy, physical therapy, object relationship theory, psychoanalytic self-psychology and transactional analysis, which it uses within a dynamic approach. Psychotherapeutic interventions used in integrative psychotherapy are based on developmental research and theories that describe self-protective defenses that are used when there are interruptions or disruptions in normal development.
The goal of integrative psychotherapy is to encourage wholeness in such a way that the quality of human being and functioning in the intrapsychic, interpersonal and socio-political space is maximized by taking into account one’s own personal boundaries and external limitations.
Integrative relational psychotherapy is suitable for working with individuals, couples and groups.