Elisabeth Sigrist
Psychotherapist
Your perception of what is happening around you is a reflection of what is happening within you. When you change ‘inside’, everything around you changes.
Gestalt therapy
With the Gestalt focus on here and now, rather than thinking you feel the changes you need to make. Thus, your emotions become your driving force to transform your situation.
Constructivist Systems therapy
Whenever you cannot change the way you feel or react to certain things, when you tend to end up in similar situations again and again, it is usually related to an unconsciously inherited pattern. Constructivist Systems therapy reveals these ‘hidden’ drives.
Get the most out of therapy
For therapy to be effective, it needs to fit in with your current life situation
Near you
I offer online counselling. If you prefer face to face therapy and you live in Madrid, I also work in the city centre and in the northern area.
Ex-Pats
Therapy is the most effective in your native tongue. I speak English, German and Spanish at native level. I am also fluent in Italian, French and Romanian.
Flexible Rates
Price is not an issue. I offer flexible rates to ensure cost does not stand in the way of your personal development.
Complementary
Depending on your needs and interests, we can boost your personal process by combining conventional humanistic psychotherapies and alternative holistic therapies.
Don’t postpone changing your life.
Contact me to resolve any doubts.
When does individual therapy make sense?
If you feel your life has lost its excitement and has become a burden. If you have lost your creativity – your ability to find effective solutions to your problems – and you feel trapped in recurring situations and emotional states.
In case of:
- Stress, anxiety, loneliness, depression, self esteem issues, lack of motivation, fears & phobias, PTSD, existential issues and fears, dissociative disorders, schizophrenia, psychotic disorders, etc.
- Unsatisfactory ways of relating or behaving, communication problems, jealousy, anger issues, gender violence, unsatisfactory sexual life, dependency and toxic relationships, overcoming grief, miscarriage, separation, divorce, shift to adolescence, issues with the family of origin, repetition of previous generations’ behavioural patterns, etc.
- ADHD, alcohol and drug abuse, addictions, psychosomatic symptoms and certain chronic symptoms, such as nervous tics, migraine, skin problems, motor skills disorder, respiratory difficulties, panic attacks, eating or sleeping disorders, digestive disorders, anorexia, bulimia, etc.
- Vocational guidance, precarious work situation, unemployment, retirement, etc.
When is the time to start couples therapy?
When your relationship has become stagnant or tainted with lies, jealousy, fears and unfaithfulness. If instead of communication there is judgement and instead of love there is dependence.
In case of:
- Disillusionment, relational quarrels, communicational and relational difficulties within the couple, with the children and/or with the family of origin, dependency and toxic relationships, behavioural patterns of previous generations recurring in the couple’s or the nuclear family’s relational dynamic, etc.
- Loyalty conflicts, unsatisfactory sexual life, jealousy, infidelities, differences in the children’s upbringing, aggressiveness, gender violence, alcohol and drug abuse, addictions, etc.
- Separation, divorce, birth of a child, miscarriage, empty nest syndrome, overcoming grief, etc.
- Precarious work situation, unemployment, retirement, etc.
When is family therapy helpful?
When a tense family environment has become part of normality, or the family unity is in danger. In times of change, such as the birth of a child, a miscarriage, transition of children to teenage years, death of a significant family member. When the family of origin is excessively involved in the own family’s matters.
In case of:
- Stagnant family dynamics, loss of creative problem-solving abilities, communicational and relational difficulties within the family, with the children, among siblings and/or with the family
of origin, dependency and toxic relationships, disagreement in the parental style and/or the children’s education style, low school performance, ADHD, etc. - Changes in the family structure (separation, divorce, precarious work situation, unemployment, retirement), recurring behavioural patterns, repetition of previous generations’ behavioural patterns, etc.
- Loyalty conflicts, infidelities, aggressiveness, domestic violence, alcohol and drug abuse, addictions, anorexia, bulimia, dissociative disorder, schizophrenia, psychotic disorders, etc.
Combined Humanistic Therapies
The combination of the humanistic Gestalt and Constructivist Systems Therapies is a powerful tool to grasp your human experience, all the way from your individual uniqueness to the factors influencing your interaction with the wider context, beyond your personal control.
Both techniques complement each other in an effective and profound manner, revealing the complex network of incompatible brain synapses which unconsciously condition and interfere between your individual and social Self. Combining them in therapy, these two forms of psychotherapy beautifully strengthen your existential aspects – your sense of identity, your personal and family history, your dreams and the way you relate with the world around you. Once you understand why you are the way you are, you can finally become the person you dream of being.
Reinforcement with alternative Holistic Therapies
We can reinforce your personal growth by optatively working with alternative therapies such as ThetaHealing, The Mayan Calendar, Mediterranean Flower Essences, Crystal Therapy, Resonance Repatterning and Reiki. This holistic approach releases deeply rooted unconscious traumas, which might be engraved at an emotional, mental or physical level.
Given my multicultural origin and childhood, I learned to combine cultural differences since I was little, thereby developing what we could call an ‘integrative vision of life’. I consider this to be my main professional strength – my natural impulse to complement different therapeutic methods, thus merging the multiple aspects of your human experience.
About me
I am a UK licensed psychologist and have been working freelance in this area since 2008. In Spain I specialised in Gestalt and Constructivist Systems therapy. Following my personal interest in holistic treatments, I also studied various alternative therapy methods.
My clients are mainly Ex-pats living in Madrid and global thinkers from around the world. This is the result of my upbringing as an Ex-pat and the consequent benefit of fluently speaking several languages.
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