Healing Trauma
Dissolving Blocks

Body Psychotherapy

Body psychotherapy offers the opportunity to heal both shock trauma - single overwhelming experiences - and developmental trauma that arise over years in dysfunctional parent-child relationships.

Body Psycho­therapy

Beginnings, methods, effects

Mental injuries that cannot be processed are reflected in the muscle and nervous system in the form of chronic tension patterns. These internal blockages can considerably disrupt the flow of life and prevent experiences of happiness in individual areas of life.

Pre- and post-natal injuries are particularly formative. Here, far in the pre-linguistic area, basic attitudes towards life are formed, which can lead to a variety of problems later, when we grow up.

The body has its own memory

Andreas Burzik

Of course, talking also plays an important role in body psychotherapy. Understanding what’s going on in oneself is the starting point of therapeutic work and significantly reducing emotional stress. The bodywork complements this process and gives it depth and sustainability. It proceeds gently and carefully, the attention is on an unconditional preservation of the client's boundaries. Clients are encouraged to actively participate in the process.

Developing Self-Esteem
Finding Quality of Life

Individual Therapy

Individual therapy provides support in emotional crises, biographical transitions and existential life issues. The goal is to achieve greater consistency with one’s own desires and needs, the development of a stable self-esteem, and the ability to live satisfactory relationships with others.

Some main areas of my work:

Unprocessed trauma has a tendency to stage itself in everyday life. If we get into situations that are similar to our emotional topic, old trauma feelings are reactivated. As a rule, we then react with a fierceness that does not seem appropriate to other people. The therapeutic work here aims at healing the underlying injury as well as learning a way of communication which is adequate to a given situation.

A relatively common problem is the burden of narcissistically disturbed parents. These parents find it difficult to establish an empathetic, loving relationship with their own children, even if they, on the face of it, provide their children with everything they need. In such families, children learn to give up their own desires and needs. They develop instead unconscious feelings of guilt, a fragile self-worth and deep self-doubt. The therapy is aimed at the reconnection with one’s own core feelings and the ability to advocate one’s own interests confidently.

The reparenting of
the Inner Child
strengthens the sense
of self-worth

Andreas Burzik

A special feature are psychological injuries from deprivation. They are often difficult to recognize because the feelings triggered by this are diffuse and difficult to describe. Being not wanted, neglect and early lack of physical contact are part of this type of injury. Here, body psychotherapy offers a variety of possibilities of renurturing the Inner Child.

Deepening
Mutual Understanding

Couples Therapy

Couple counseling provides help and support in relationship crises. Common topics include disrupted communication, domestic task distribution, different needs for closeness and distance and sexuality.

The aim of the consultation is to deepen the mutual understanding of worries, fears and distress of the partner as well as of mutual wishes and needs. A central element is the learning of constructive communication.

It turned out to be helpful, at least rudimentary, to know the injury history of the partner and to know which unconscious coping strategies have been acquired. Often these patterns of behavior are surprisingly complementary. They interlock “perfectly” and lead to the notorious injury spirals.

The art of constructive arguing makes relationships successful

Andreas Burzik

The knowledge of the respective “sore points” helps with a more mindful approach to each other and avoids unnecessary injuries. This should not be confused with an overcautious, conflict-avoiding manner of dealing. On the contrary, the art of constructive arguing is necessary for the success of a relationship.

An Investment
in a Better Quality of Life

Costs and Conditions

INDIVIDUAL THERAPY

An initial interview costs 60€.

An individual session lasts 60 minutes and costs, according to self-assessment, between 80 € and 100 €, reduced 60 €.

The frequency of the sessions depends on the needs of the client. Sessions are common at intervals of one or two weeks. Cancellations are free of charge until 24  hours before the appointment, after which the session must also be paid for in the event of non-use.

Unfortunately, body psychotherapy is not paid for by health insurance companies, my practice is therefore a pure self-payer practice. Some health insurance companies provide a subsidy for the benefits of non-medical practitioner for psychotherapy.

COUPLES THERAPY

A couple therapy session usually lasts 60 minutes and costs 120 €.

In the event of financial shortages, a reduction is possible. Unfortunately, health insurance companies do not cover the costs of a couple consultation.

Contact

Andreas Burzik
+49 160 966 11 699

Practice:
Bahnhofstr. 5 (Side Entrance)
D-28195 Bremen
Germany