Psychologist in Benalmádena

There are several times in life when seeing a psychologist can be very beneficial:

1. When you experience significant distress:
   
   This is the most frequent reason for consultation, which affects your thoughts, emotions, actions and relationships with yourself and others: intense worries, constant fear, irritability, feeling of not being good enough, frustrations, tiredness and fatigue even if you have not been physically active, wanting to isolate yourself, wanting to sleep for long hours, being easily distracted and not connecting with your present and the people around you, trouble sleeping, constant nightmares, heart palpitations, discomfort in various parts of the body, thinking about the future in an apprehensive way, not getting over some experience of the past, feeling of emptiness.
   
   
2. When there is a specific personal difficulty:
   
   Relationship and/or family problems, stress at work and/or school, difficulties in social interaction, anxiety due to unemployment, difficulties in social interaction, parenting issues or interaction with children.
   
   
3. When a traumatic or stressful event has happened:
   
   Death of someone close, the presence or experience of a traumatic event (accident, robbery, abuse, illness, natural catastrophes), emotional break-ups (partner, friends, loved ones).
   
   
4. When you want to improve some aspect of yourself:
   
   There are several aspects of ourselves that we can address in psychological therapy before problems arise, e.g. increasing motivation, improving self-esteem, developing social skills, losing the fear of public speaking, learning to listen, regulating and expressing emotions, good time management, decision making.
   
   
5. When you require a psychological assessment report:
   
   Clinical evaluations can be carried out to determine various aspects such as personality, intelligence, emotions, behaviour, etc.
   Expert reports related to legal and forensic aspects can also be carried out, for example in separations, guardianship and custody, sick leave, etc.

Psychotherapy is a space where you can explore aspects of yourself that you consider are important to you, in the company of a professional who has extensively studied all aspects related to our human psychology. Therefore, it is a safe space where you can observe, feel, re-signify, conclude and act in accordance with the objectives that are important to you at a given moment in your life and that generate emotional well-being.

Psychological meetings consist of a dialogue where active listening and reflection allow us to realise the best way to deal with our emotional concerns.

This dialogue is supported, depending on the case, with activities or dynamics inside and outside of the sessions aimed at achieving therapeutic objectives.

The first part of a psychological intervention is the assessment, where the idea is to know yourself: the way you think, how you feel, how you act, how your body reacts in relation to your particular context and your reason for consultation. Then follows the intervention, where we apply the most effective psychological techniques to achieve your goals, and then we follow up to reinforce the results achieved.

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Improvement in psychological therapy depends on several aspects such as perseverance, openness, and the therapeutic bond and teamwork between therapist and client.

Generally, when these factors are present and following a psychological assessment that takes a broad view of the best way to achieve these goals according to the unique characteristics of each person, the therapeutic goals that have been set in an honest way are achieved.  With this achievement of goals we observe improvement in the majority of cases.

On the other hand, if you are in psychological therapy, the improvement depends on what you consider to be being better.  It is possible that some people become aware of aspects of their life that can cause pain, but if worked with, although painful, will always bring growth as a person.

It is also the case that you may come with an expectation and after the course of therapy your view of what you are doing changes – therapy changes your vision of what it means to be better.

In conclusion, whether it is to achieve your objectives, to grow as a person by realizing

something you hadn’t noticed about yourself before, or by changing the way you perceive well-being, there is always growth or improvement.

Confidentiality is the vehicle of trust of therapy.  Information, verbal or written that is dealt with in the sessions is totally confidential.  However, as with everything else, there are two important exceptions in which confidentiality can be breached considered by the psychologist’s code of ethics: If there is a court order requesting specific information regarding a case, or if someone’s life is in danger -this must be reported without exception.