At the beginning, perhaps good to clarify: I believe that people who use therapy are not sick, but courageous. And I’m convinced that pretty much everyone benefits from inner work who starts it. A background lies in the way our nervous system responds to challenges: Wherever an experience is too challenging to respond to fluidly, the nervous system ensures that the experience is compensated for internally. With mechanisms that have proven themselves over thousands of years. This is wise to protect ourselves,- and has the disadvantage that this process is not conscious to ourselves. The built-in compensations remain invisible and imperceptible, but sustainably reduce the range of life and experience.
The goal of therapy is to gradually release more of this frozen life force so that it is available for other things: more energy, more clear gut feelings, more knowledge of what my life can look like. It is often the first therapy experiences that make roots more palpable again and new movement more possible. Therapy is thus also a step towards oneself: To that which is inherent in one’s own life in terms of strength and depth.
Psychotherapy according to HPG in practice
For example:
- Working with a young woman with a strong inner stress experience for which no conscious cause can be found.
- Work with a successful manager who repeatedly observes how individual situations occupy him more deeply than he would like after work.
- Working with a young man who has uncovered his own issues through self-awareness, which he now wants to integrate more deeply and in direct companionship.
- Working with a young man in the early years of professional life on what lies beneath the stress in close relationships and on clarifying tensions in the family of origin.
- Work with a young woman who was more tense and irritable after an accident than before.
- Work with an experienced manager in a corporate environment on the perception of feeling on your own and having to fight through difficult situations.
- Work with a team leader in a corporate environment on high stress experience prior to public presentations.
- Working with a man on symptoms of insomnia and latent restlessness for which there seemed to be no triggers.
- Working with a midlife woman on integrating early experiences of loss that involved a fundamental fear of closeness.
- Working with an experienced health care worker to process stressful experiences following a client's assault.
- Work with a woman after an inpatient stay in a psychosomatic clinic, in order to accompany the transition into everyday life well and to transfer what has been learned.