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Your information is safe and is not transmitted to third parties. Only you and the psychologist. Psychologists sign the corresponding agreement with us. You can cancel the recording no later than 24 hours before the meeting. Money will return to your card. Frequent questions about working with a psychologist how the first session is going on at the first session usually acquaintance with the therapist and clarify the request.

No one will demand from you to immediately tell very personal things or plunge into the past. The psychologist will ask you a few questions about your life, your discontent and difficulties and goals in psychotherapy. This is necessary so that the psychologist understands how to build further work. How to prepare for the first session is usually no special training.

But, if you have time, you can reflect on these issues - they will help to better determine your goals and expectations from therapy: what difficulties are you facing now? What areas of life are not satisfied with you now? What would you like to change in yourself and your life? What would you like to come after therapy? How to behave during the session we understand that at the first session it can be difficult to relax: we have to talk about personal things with an almost stranger.

But the therapist will not condemn or criticize you. His main task is to help you. In addition, one of the professional skills of the therapist is to create a trusting calm atmosphere. Therefore, do not worry and try to just speak as sincerely as possible. But if you are not ready to talk about something yet, do not force yourself. How much the session lasts most often an individual session with a psychologist lasts 55 minutes.

Family or pair therapy - 1 hour 20 minutes. Please note that different specialists may vary. The exact duration of the sessions is indicated in the section "Cost of the sessions" on the psychologist page. How many sessions are it difficult to determine in advance. The duration of therapy depends on different factors, for example: the direction in which the therapist works. It is easy for someone to talk about your individual characteristics about personal and reflect, someone needs more time for this.

The complexity of the request with protracted depression work longer than with the problem of choosing a profession. The result of the therapy that you expect. The number of sessions depends on your case. Some questions can be worked out and feel better for 6-10 sessions, and some topics require a longer work - up to a year. How often you need to meet a psychologist, as a rule, at the first stage of therapy, the frequency of meetings is once a week.

This is optimal: the client can fully immerse himself in the work, while he manages to do homework if they are from a psychologist and track changes in his life. Then, by agreement, you can meet a psychologist less often. In crisis and acute conditions, the frequency of meetings can be 2-3 times a week. How work goes with the therapist all depends on the approach.

Now exists from to psychotherapeutic approaches. We are in Alter only for those that are recognized as an international professional community. The choice of direction depends on the request with which the client came, and on his individual characteristics. For example, for working with depression, the cognitive-biwhy-orah direction is most often recommended, and existential for finding a goal in life.

But personally, something else can suit you with these requests. Sometimes psychologists combine several methods to make therapy more individual and effective. As a rule, any therapeutic session is a conversation about what worries a client built on the basis of special techniques. Also, many psychologists give homework - it can be the maintenance of a diary, the development of certain skills, the use of a consciousness technique.

Is it possible to undergo psychotherapy online yes. You can go through consultations remotely - for example, on Skype or in other video services. The price is not different from offline meetings with a psychologist. Most ALTER psychologists conduct online consultations - this is a standard practice. In general, this is a great option for everyone who does not have the opportunity to meet with a psychologist personally.

Which is better: online or offline therapy, if possible, it is better to choose offline therapy- there are fewer restrictions in this format and it can give results faster. But if this option is not suitable, you can choose an online format. This is a standard practice. Correspondence is recommended only in combination with other formats, perceiving it as support, but not as therapy. All our psychologists have been selected according to the method developed on the basis of Pi RAO-the oldest research psychological institution in Russia in Russia, there are no licensing of psychologists and laws on psychological assistance: no one checks the education, quality of work and adequacy of practitioners of specialists.

Alter solves this problem.All our psychologists have an appropriate education, they are competent, can work with cases designated in profiles and practice in methods recognized in the professional community. Record to a psychologist.