What is psychotherapy?
The word psychotherapy is derived from Greek and means "treatment of the soul". It is a scientific method carried out by a specialized professional (psychologist or psychiatrist), whose aiming is to increase the well-being of people. Doing psychotherapy is much more than being on a couch and talking to someone about one’s problems. In the therapeutic process you will be able to identify your unconscious parts, which many times you do not recognize at first because they are unpleasant and painful, or because they manifest in physical symptoms. In therapy you can feel, name, accept and integrate your repressed emotions. Through this integrative elaboration of your shadow, you will be able to be more responsible and master your emotions and needs and feel complete and empowered. This will lead to a greater degree of self-knowledge, to be more assertive in your life and to stop blaming others for your failures. At Doctor Julio Lachos’ clinic we work as a team with different psychotherapeutic methods, integrating all the existing schools. Psychotherapies are offered in the following modalities:
Individual psychotherapy
The objective is the elaboration of your biography, using the emotional-bodily narrative. The main focus here is to explore the "inner child", analyzing your childhood and from there to work the grief, product of an experienced abandonment, many times unconscious for oneself. From this level of self-knowledge you will be able to examine your current life and realize the implications and behaviors that are products of the conditioning experienced in your family of origin.
Couple and family psychotherapy
Here the type of communication, hierarchies, rules and dynamics that mark coexistence among family members are evaluated. It seeks to reveal if there is a displacement of the problem to a member of the family, which often shows symptoms such as depression. You can see the role that you have fulfilled in your original family system, which you were unaware of. Another important aspect is to identify the reversal of roles in the family system (for example, the children who take charge of their parents by becomming their parents). This destabilizes the family system creating chaos, confusion and psychosomatic symptoms and addictions.
Group psychotherapy
Group therapies offer a unique space of intimacy, vulnerability, safety and healing, so that you can explore the deepest wounds of your soul. By naming and taking charge of those wounds, one can work for the creation of more human and intimate interpersonal relations. Through the group you become more aware of how you relate to others. In addition, the group offers you the great opportunity to make sincere and restorative experiences with others. You can, for example, realize that you are totally accepted for being as you are and not for the things you do in order to please others. The members of the group therapy benefit in this way by receiving support and putting the mirror to each other in a sincere way.
Pharmacotherapy
In severe cases of psychiatric illnesses such as major depression, psychosis, schizophrenia or bipolar episodes, psychoactive drugs are necessary. In a meticulous evaluation we give the best option to your treatment using the drugs and their combination according to international scientific recommendations, still prioritizing psychotherapy.
Supervision
In this space, professionals working in the mental health area, discuss the therapies and problems of their clients, e.g. the quality of the relationship, the blind spots and projections of the professional, which prevent to see the implications in the system of the patient from an objective point of view.
Payments
The therapies are covered by the Swiss health insurance. For more information write to praxisstalban-dr.lachos@hin.ch