Psychotherapist

Psychotherapy is a branch of medicine that offers assistance to people with mental and emotional disorders. The therapist works with issues such as bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, borderline personality disorders, eating disorders, and others. The EMC Clinic of Psychotherapy and Psychiatry is one of the few specialized clinics in Moscow where you can get advice from leading psychotherapists in Moscow who have been trained in leading clinics in the USA and Europe.

What is psychotherapy

Modern psychotherapy helps patients with conditions such as:

1. Anxiety disorders: generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, phobias, panic attacks.
2. Diseases of the affective sphere. This group of mental illnesses includes conditions associated with emotional instability, such as depression or bipolar disorder.
3. Dependencies. Working with a psychotherapist helps patients overcome alcohol or drug addiction and gambling addiction.
4. Eating disorders. Consultations for bulimia, anorexia, and compulsive overeating improve not only the emotional, but also the physical condition of the patient.
5. Personality disorders: dissocial disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, etc.
6. Borderline personality disorder is a pathology that reduces a person's social adaptation and significantly impairs the quality of life.

However, patients do not always turn to a psychotherapist for any mental problems. Consulting a doctor also helps people who find themselves in a difficult life situation, for example:

• unfavorable family environment, conflicts with a partner;

• problems at work;

• sudden and unfavorable changes in life: divorce, death of a loved one, loss of a job;

• experienced physical, psychological, or sexual trauma;

• problems in the intimate sphere caused by physical or psychological factors;

• persistent sleep disorders.

Methods of psychotherapy

The purpose of psychotherapy is to complement and enhance the effect of psychopharmacotherapy, to help the patient return to an active lifestyle and a stable psychological state faster. In some cases, the help of a psychotherapist can replace medical treatment methods.

To alleviate the symptoms, the EMC clinic's psychotherapists use in their practice:

• cognitive behavioral therapy;

• Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS);

• biofeedback (BOS therapy);

• various psychoeducation programs, communication skills trainings, etc.

Techniques of manual therapy, relaxation, and restorative medicine are also used, if necessary.

How is the consultation going

The basis of psychotherapeutic treatment is cognitive behavioral therapy. Together with the doctor, the patient is working to improve his condition by going through the following stages:

1. Diagnostics. At the first appointment, the doctor and the patient get acquainted, problems and complaints are clarified. The therapist provides the patient with clear information about the possibilities and prognosis of psychotherapeutic treatment.
2. Therapy. The doctor and the patient analyze the factors that trigger and support the symptoms, study and modify behavioral stereotypes, turn to the internal organization of mental processes that underlie the identified problem, and strive to change patterns of thinking.
3. Completion. After achieving the main objectives, supportive therapy is possible with a shift in focus to psychological counseling.

Consultations are usually held once a week (according to indications more often), the duration of one session is 45-60 minutes. Depending on the patient's goals, situation, and individual dynamics, several sessions may be required, as well as prolonged treatment that will take months.