Rehabilation therapy

Kela's rehabilitation psychotherapy is a cognitive orientation. I can take 16-67 year olds for individual therapy. For 16-25 year olds, in addition to individual therapy, parental guidance visits can be arranged if necessary.

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Please first undergo a therapy assessment. After this, and when you know who you will start psychotherapy with, you can submit your own psychotherapy application to Kela as an attachment to the B-statement. For more information, visit Kela's website.

You can read more about cognitive psychotherapy on the website of the Cognitive Psychotherapy Association website.

I have graduated from the University of Tampere as a cognitive behavioral therapist in 2021 (Kela, Valvira). However, the cognitive approach has been inherent since the beginning of the 2000s, when I graduated as a psychiatric nurse. My work experience has been extensive in psychiatric care, including substance abuse and gambling problems, sex addiction, unstable and other personality disorders, eating disorders, neuropsychiatric challenges, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, trauma, anxiety and depression symptoms... Now I have also graduated to work as an EMDR therapist, which can be utilized in our psychotherapy sessions, especially as part of trauma treatment.

My approach to work is active. I think you want change, even if it challenges you to painful or difficult things. At first, I map out your situation by interviewing you, perhaps we do a personal timeline or use functional analysis as an aid. I often give homework, because I believe that a lot of the change happens elsewhere than in therapy sessions. After deciding on the goals of working together, we choose appropriate therapy methods and tools for this.

One traditional cognitive method is to become aware of harmful thoughts and beliefs and how do they affect our feelings and actions, after which we challenge and change these. Often, we must dive deeper, into childhood or adolescence. Attachment patterns affect our lives unless we are aware of our own roots and are ready to change the habitual pattern and break the harmful intergenerational chain. Sometimes we enter the world of schema therapy, which, as a humane form of therapy, tells us that we all have emotional locks and weak ego states that we can change without being captured by a demanding and harsh inner voice. We can make choices, and we have control even when we think that our lives are controlled by an eating disorder, obsessive-compulsive symptoms or addictive diseases. Exposure therapies have been shown to be effective. Dialectical behavioral therapy has been found to be effective, for example, in treating instability. In acceptance and commitment therapy, we move towards our own values, a life that resembles our own self, by taking into account our own needs and wishes. It's important to include the body in therapy, because we are not just a floating head, but a whole being. Awareness exercises, stopping in the moment and anchoring breathing are also important methods when you start to stabilize before working on trauma. We practice skills to take care of ourselves and deal with difficult emotions without getting sucked into the middle of the trauma, dissociating or, at worst, re-experiencing the trauma.

I am happy to hear feedback and also criticism so that I can develop. After all, we are at your side of the treatment. I also use various metrics to monitor the quality and effectiveness of the treatment.

One therapy session lasts 45 minutes and usually takes place once a week, at the beginning it can be twice a week and towards the end it can also be reduced to every other week. Rehabilitation psychotherapy is granted for a year at a time and can be received for a maximum of three years at a time.