{"id":4152,"date":"2021-02-13T16:33:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T15:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaiapolloni.com\/psicoterapia\/"},"modified":"2021-03-15T00:31:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T23:31:16","slug":"psychotherapy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gaiapolloni.com\/en\/psychotherapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychotherapy"},"content":{"rendered":"

How does it work?<\/h2><\/h2><\/div>

Psychotherapy can help patients deal with their problems and relieve the related stress, anxiety and discomfort. Its main goal is to help people gain a clearer understanding of what causes or triggers their pain and suffering, in order to enhance personal resources, abilities and coping skills, and especially to improve their self-awareness.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Gaia Polloni provides psychotherapy to teenagers, adults and couples, both in English and in Italian.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>

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Methodological Approach<\/h2><\/h2><\/div>
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During her career, Gaia Polloni has worked with a variety of methodological approaches, such as psychoanalysis, behaviourism, cognitivism and systemic family therapy. Though she often incorporates aspects of different approaches in her clinical practice, she favours the\u00a0cognitive constructivist post-rationalist approach<\/strong>\u00a0(Guidano, Liotti, Mahoney).<\/p>\n

This last approach defines patients as the true experts of themselves, as they are the only ones in contact with their inner worlds, and it attempts to discover the manner by which people read or define themselves, their stories and the world around them. Therefore, the ways by which patients remember experiences and the meanings they attach to those memories become valuable tools for post-rationalist psychotherapists<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Working primarily with\u00a0emotions<\/strong>, the main goal of this kind of psychotherapy is to improve and broaden self-awareness and to enhance the understanding of our internal dynamics, and of how we build and behave in relationships with others<\/p>\n

The therapeutic relationship is seen as a primary tool for exploration, where the therapist, going back to\u00a0Bowlby\u2019s Attachment Theory<\/strong>, represents a\u00a0secure base<\/strong>: an attachment figure who will encourage the exploration of thoughts and emotions in a non-judgmental and empathic setting.<\/p>\n

Being an\u00a0EMDR Therapist<\/strong>, Gaia Polloni integrates this integrative psychotherapy approach into her clinical practice, together with other somatic therapies, such as\u00a0Sensorimotor Psychotherapy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Gaia Polloni treats a wide variety of problems, primarily falling into these general categories.<\/h2><\/h2><\/div>
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<\/i><\/i><\/span>Anxiety Disorders<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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