PSCYHOTHERAPY

ISTDP • Psychedelic Therapy • Coaching

The goal of my treatments is to:

Give new perspectives on your life
Offer alternative perceptions of reality
Facilitate emotional breakthroughs
Give a more truthful image of yourself and your life
Give increased capacity to live your life
Provide increased capacity to take responsibility

Psychotherapy With Me

Life is not easy! Getting yourself, livelihood, family and relationships together… for many of us it can be like a mystery, which you don’t know how to solve. Personally, I have great experience of being lost in this mystery, as well as sitting with others in their lostness. Over the years, I have developed a keen ability to see patterns in a life that can provide answers to why one ended up so lost. By piecing this pattern together, my patients and I usually find clues and inspiration for how to get back on the right track in life. Or at least gain greater understanding and acceptance of where you have ended up. Much is about a change of perspective. New perspectives can make an almost hopeless situation see the light again.

My theoretical background since the psychology program in Gothenburg is both psychodynamic therapy (PDT) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). I then furthered my education first in trauma-focused CBT when I worked in a PTSD clinic for several years. Later, I chose to specialize in the psychodynamic short-term therapeutic method ISTDP, which I also teach since 2016. I would describe ISTDP as a more intensive and direct psychodynamic method. Today, my style has developed in such a way that I am always looking for what is causing the problems and how the problems are perpetuated by the patient themselves due to narratives, behaviors and thought patterns that the patient often unconsciously clings to. I attach great importance to helping the patient gain insight into how and why he himself contributes to his own suffering, so that he can consciously make choices that instead increase well-being.

Meeting arrangments

Trial therapy
2,5 hours

During the first visit, we discuss your problem, its perpetuating driving forces and what you wish to achieve in a treatment. If you enjoy being with me, we will book more visits.

Price:
140 EUR/h x 2,5 = 350 EUR

Follow up
60-90 min

Depending on your needs, you choose the length of the session and how often you want to go. Discuss with me what is best for you after the trial therapy. Some notice a big change already after the trial therapy. Some are satisfied after 4-6 visits. Others go 10-20 visits or longer.

Price:
140 EUR/h

Block therapy

If you live further away or don’t want to go regularly, there is an option for an intensive “therapy block”. This means that we meet for a total of seven hours, spread over three days (three hours on day 1, three hours on day 2 and one hour after about a week). This arrangement suits you who do not have too difficult problems and who feel you are sufficiently ready to work intensively for change in a short period of time.With blocktherapy you get a discounted hour-price.

Price:
122 EUR/h x 7 = 854 EUR

Method

ISTDP

ISTDP (intensive short-term psychotherapy) is a modern psychodynamic therapy method that is adapted to different people’s needs and conditions. It has by patients been called the ”No bullshit-therapy”. ISTDP is especially helpful for those with relationship problems, depression, psychosomatic problems and anxiety, for those who have difficulty dealing with emotions/are not in touch with their emotions. The treatment has a clear focus and the therapist is constantly challenging in relation to the defenses the patient uses to avoid certain truths, but with an ever-present empathy for the functioning of the defenses and the patient’s painful feelings in facing truths.

The method is called affect-focused as a goal in the therapy is to make it easier for the patient to fully experience its feelings. At the same time, the method is insight-focused as an understanding of the cause of the problems contributes to both an increased chance for a breakthrough of emotions and a more lasting change. ISTDP is an intensive method that can lead to lasting changes in a short time when therapist and patient fully engage in the work. The method has growing research support and has been effective even for complex, long-term problems and psychosomatic conditions. Please visit www.istdpsweden.se for more information.

Psychedelic integration

With a psychedelic substance as a catalyst, you can access larger parts of your consciousness, and break out of the repetitive patterns your brain may be stuck in. It can help you get back to the openness your consciousness was in as a child, and you get the opportunity to see yourself from a more open, flexible and loving perspective.

In addition to a potentially spiritual and highly meaningful experience, sessions with a psychedelic substance can help you move on from a stagnant state such as depression and anxiety. Like usual psychotherapy, it’s not about quick solutions, but in-depth work to get closer to yourself and how you want to live your life. The time after a psychedelic experience is particularly significant as the new insights may need to be processed and integrated with one’s previous ways of looking at oneself and life.

Liv is one of the few psychologists in Sweden with training in psychedelic assisted therapy and someone you would choose as a guide for your integration.

About Liv

Liv is not your typical psychologist as she is not afraid to tell the truth in a clear and honest way. She has developed her own style over the years based on principles from ISTDP, IFS, CBT and Psychedelic therapy.