About Therapy
Hasya’s role as a therapist is to create a safe space, where you are allowed to show up as who you are, and feel accepted no matter what you are coming in with. This acceptance is the base for a fruitful therapeutic process and for growth and change to happen. Hasya will work with you to identify what is keeping you from truly being yourself. This may involve looking back on how you grew up and learning how this affects your life today. Or it may involve using the body’s wisdom, while being curious about how you had to mold yourself according to the demands you were faced with and identify beliefs that shape your reality today. Bringing all this into consciousness will open up a window of opportunity and choice.
Hasya works with individuals, couples, adolescents and children. She works with the following issues:
Life transition: As we develop, we change and grow and we may experience that everything we take for granted is being questioned. It can be unsettling to find that the old is disappearing and the new is still unknown. This may bring up feelings of confusion and questions about identity.
Loss of meaning: When we grow up we adopt a set of beliefs and at some point we may recognize that these beliefs and assumptions feel empty and meaningless to us. Also we may question our purpose in life and wonder about our path, our goals in life, and rethink what we want to do with our life.
Relationship issues: Relationships are a great place to learn about ourselves. In intimate or romantic relationships a lot of our young emotional parts get triggered and we have the opportunity to bring into consciousness what would otherwise direct our actions from the dark.
Abuse: Different people may have experienced various kinds of abuse and neglect in their lives. Examples are emotional abuse, which could be any way in which a person has been insulted, criticized or otherwise been the object of cruelty. Some people have been the target of physical abuse or sexual abuse.
Trauma: What each of us experiences as traumatic can vary to a great extent. There are more obvious forms of trauma, such as having survived sexual, physical, or emotional abuse, or other sudden unforeseen events, such as witnessing an accident or having been robbed, for example. Sometimes even events that we might dismiss as unimportant could have been experienced as traumatic.
Loss and grief: The loss of a loved one can leave a big gap for many people. Some people have not been able to cope with the loss or death of a loved one. In our society, talking about death, sickness, and aging are taboo. The tendency can be to ignore and deny our feelings related to loss and death. It is very important to let ourselves grieve, which means to allow all feelings associated with the loss or death while gently taking care of ourselves. Other losses include divorce and separation from one’s partner and family members. This too is a loss that requires adequate working through and grieving
Addiction: There are a lot of different addictions, some of them to substances, such as alcohol or drugs, or to processes such as gambling, shopping or sex. Addictions move through different stages. They often start out as an attempt to cope with negative feelings or events or as an attempt to seek out pleasurable feelings. As a person continues to use their drug of choice, habits become more ingrained and brain chemistry changes. It can become difficult, or impossible to abstain from using. A long term, severe addiction might need more than psychological treatment, e.g. medical attention and support groups, but psychotherapy can be an important component in treating addiction at any stage.
Eating disorders: A preoccupation with food, body weight and body image is often a coping mechanism for dealing with difficult feelings. These feelings can be the result of traumatic experiences and can lead to significant impairment of interpersonal relationships and often lead to changes in the sense of identity. Eating habits can change in different ways, someone might restrict their calorie intake and compulsively count calories, while others might eat compulsively and/or binge eat and purge. Even excessive exercising can be an indication of an eating disorder.
Codependency: As some people can become addicted to substances or can become obsessed with food and weight, some people may have adopted the role of the helper and learned to take care of others in their relationships. A codependent person may not appear to have a problem, because they receive social approval for taking care of people, or taking charge of problems. Being the one who takes care of others can take it’s toll when in the process of habitually helping others one forgets about themselves and has lost touch with their own needs and wants.
Depression and anxiety: All of the above mentioned issues can come with varying degrees of depression and anxiety. Feelings of depression may involve loss of energy, lethargy, an overall “grayness”, a loss of interest in regular activities and relationships. Depression can be the result of loss and inadequate grieving, or can be the result of various different psychological and physiological factors. Anxiety can be experienced as tension and restlessness and can lead to avoidance of that which provokes the anxiety. Anxiety can be caused by all kinds of situations, especially ones that feel unknown or uncertain.
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