How can I help you?

Being kind with oneself. Dealing with negative self-talk. Self-acceptance EFT tapping. Improving self-image through NLP positive self-concept techniques.

How OCD works and how to break free. Your relationship with your thinking. The way irrational beliefs / obsessions hijack you mind and what you can do to stop that.

(Optional, but very helpful) container for the work puts everything in life in  perspective and reduces overall stress / anxiety level. It also facilitates decision making, self-actualisation and promotes personal freedom. Works equally well with religious / secular people (as far as they are not militant atheists).

These are just a few techniques I regularly use with my clients in sessions: EFT tearless trauma process (regarding the scientific evidence for the efficacy of EFT in treatment of anxiety disorders, you can read on my EFT Research page), NLP-based timeline therapy, NLP-based phobia cure, Dispelling irrational beliefs with NLP conversational belief-change, Gestalt-therapy / perceptual position exercises for resolving social / family conflicts.

According to Attachment Theory, there are several  types of insecure attachment: anxious-preoccupied, dismissive-avoidant and fearful-avoidant (also called disorganised).  I’m separating this type of deeply-seated childhood trauma into a separate category for two reasons. One: it comes up  every time in severe anxiety / OCD cases, and two: it is normally considered hardly treatable.

Here, we decrease the intensity of triggers / situations from SUD 8-10 out of 10 to the much lower level suitable for exposure exercises in Homework assignments. Tapping and disassociation tools to “anesthetize” the emotional discomfort during the visualization process is instrumental for this work.

Together, we identify suppressed “unsafe” feelings, then we work through release of them through tapping and bioenergetic exercises (see Alexander Lowen, Bioenergetic Therapy) in session. Following that, the homework is given on further expression of such feelings without damage to self / others.

Nutrition, exercise, sleep and electronic-screen hygiene that facilitate relief of OCD and anxiety symptoms and accelerates recovery.

There is more and more evidence that these environmental factors can dramatically exacerbate mental-health symptoms and hence it is critical to have those checked.

Homework assignments include Exposure and Response Prevention -like exercises. We first go through various triggers / difficult scenarios in session and descrease their intensity in visualisation and tapping exercises. Then the remaining “vaccinated” issue is given as a homework assignment for nearly an assured win (of course, some discomfort will be necessary and part of the retraining process). Homework also includes embodiment and breathing exercises, mindfulness practices, journaling and self-acceptance tapping.

If the nature of OCD / anxiety allows for exposure / behavioural exercises in session (or nearby my office), then we field-test what we acheived in the difficult scenario visualisations.