The uniqueness of our therapy is in the belief that relief from suffering can be often achieved rather fast, by seeking a breakthrough in the way the client understands their problem.
We decided to describe our therapeutic way using a series questions and answers, covering different aspects of therapy in general, and of our therapeutic way in particular.
Psychotherapy usually refers to a broad range of treatments that have in common the use of psychological means to treat mental suffering and pain. In this respect, psychotherapy differs from medication.
The broad range of psychotherapeutic treatments available today varies:
The quality and success (or failure) of a treatment also depends greatly on the qualities of the therapist as a person, and on a successful match of qualities in both therapist and client.
Psychotherapy is a profession, and as such requires from those who conduct it a long and complex training, adherence to an ethical code, and a membership in some organisation of professionals where their abilities, successes, and failures can be monitored.
At Behar Center we use a so-called dynamic theoretical approach in our work: the assumption that thoughts, actions, and emotions, are affecting one another, within a person as well as between persons.
With time, those dynamics become a habit, and like any habit, they become automatic, and settle underneath the layer of our awareness. Almost to say: they become a secret. Whereas these dynamics for themselves are unhealthy, it is actually their “secrecy” that’s really damaging. This mutual interaction of thoughts, actions and emotions, which had sedimented in our unconscious (or in the unconscious of our relationship, for that matter), is the reason for unhealthy relationships, of people with one another as well as of a person with oneself. “Unhealthy”, that is, in that we are taking the energies of our beloved ones, or of ourselves, or we give out our energies to our beloved ones without receiving energies in return.
Our therapy is using this very interlocked system of emotions, thoughts and actions, also for curing, in two ways:
This can be achieved using couples’ therapy, as well as individual therapy. To imagine how such a therapy hour actually looks like, we can imagine a conversation of two or three people, therapist and a client or a couple. The role of the client is to speak out any thoughts and feelings that come to mind, with the active participation of the therapist.
During the talking, the client will use the line of thought that’s most easily available to them. The therapist’s role is to try and find together a different, less explored, line of thought, for talking about the same thing.
Dialogues can then emerge, that can be sometimes stressful, other times funny. Both are welcome, as long as there is some sort of surprise. It is this surprise, that transitions the client from the automatic and unhealthy onto the new and fresh. The healing is in this internal (or interpersonal) transition.
The following issues may indicate that an external professional person could help. External intervention does not necessarily mean an in depth therapy: sometimes a consultation would be sufficient. If you present with one or more of the issues listed below, you may want to consider visiting a mental health professional.
At Behar center, we mainly work with relationships issues, loneliness, fears, anger, lack of meaning, emptiness, self-organising, life crises, and trauma.
We are all likely to benefit from therapy, so the question should rather be, how do you know if the therapy will be conducted in a way that would help you? To answer this, you may find it beneficial to talk to the potential therapist, or even meet them in person. If the approach to your
problem feels serious, and if you feel that the therapist is professional and empathic, then you have good reason to expect to benefit from
therapy.
A well-conducted psychotherapy often has two kinds of positive outputs. One is, the reason for your initial visit has been resolved, e.g., painful symptoms have substantially declined or diminished. The other output is related to growth. A successful treatment has a huge potential to install hope, to feel better about yourself and the world, and to put past issues into the right perspective.
The current standard fee at Behar Center for a 50-minute session is CZK 1400.