Therapy at our outpatient clinic
Cognitive behavioral therapy
The basis of our therapeutic work is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). CBT is a scientifically based approach to psychotherapy. Its effectiveness has been proven in numerous studies across the entire spectrum of mental disorders. The treatment is based on the fact that a person's experience and behavior is shaped by learning experiences over the course of their life. A mental disorder can develop if the learned patterns are problematic or inappropriate in the current living environment. This often results in severe psychological distress.
We first help you to understand how your problems have arisen and why they persist, even though you may have already tried various solutions. From this, we work together to develop coping and change strategies that are helpful for your specific problem situation. These include, for example, methods of self-control, stimulus confrontation techniques, role-playing or cognitive processes. The aim is to develop helpful patterns of experience and behavior, try them out and anchor them permanently in everyday life.
Your active participation in the sessions and in everyday life is particularly important for the therapy. We often work out exercises that you carry out independently between sessions in order to gain new experiences and stabilize what you have learned. Our aim is to make you an expert on your own problems and the right therapeutic measures. As the therapy progresses, we therefore step back more and more. Once the therapy has been completed, you will only have contact with us at long intervals to ensure the long-term success of the therapy.
If you would like to find out more about psychotherapy in general, we recommend the website of the German Federal Chamber of Psychotherapists(https://www.wege-zur-psychotherapie.org/).
Adults
UFP's therapy services are aimed at all those who suffer from psychological stress and are therefore restricted in their quality of life. We offer behavioral therapy for all mental disorders for which psychotherapy is indicated, for example anxiety disorders, phobias and panic disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders, reactions to severe stress (post-traumatic stress disorder) and adjustment disorders, depressive disorders, bipolar disorders, physical illnesses with accompanying and subsequent psychological symptoms, eating disorders, substance disorders and addictive behaviors, schizophrenia and psychotic disorders (after the acute phase), social behavior disorders and impulse control, personality disorders
Children and adolescents
We treat children and adolescents between the ages of 4 and 21. Treatment is aimed at children and adolescents with the following problems, among others: Anxiety (e.g. separation anxiety, social anxiety, school and performance anxiety, panic disorder and generalized anxiety disorder), depression, restlessness and attention disorders (attention deficit disorders without and with hyperactivity), emotional sequelae of specific developmental disorders/learning disorders (e.g. dyslexia), eating disorders (bulimia, anorexia), enuresis and defecation after the age of 5, compulsions, tics. adjustment disorders as a reaction to difficult life events, traumatic events, emotional stress caused by parental separation, insomnia and sleep disorders.
Patients with acute suicidal tendencies, psychotic symptoms or profound developmental disorders (autism spectrum disorder) cannot be treated at the outpatient clinic.
As important caregivers, parents are usually involved in the therapeutic process. Their support is often helpful in achieving the therapy goals. In some cases, parents are directly involved in the therapy sessions, in others there are separate parent appointments. The younger a child is, the more often the parents are invited. For adolescents aged 15 and over, therapy can also take place without the parents being involved. If parents share custody of their child, both parents must consent to treatment. This also applies if they are separated or divorced. Parents without custody, on the other hand, do not have to consent to treatment. Adolescents aged 15 and over may also decide independently to undergo psychotherapy in our outpatient clinic. The consent of the parents or guardians is then not explicitly required.