Different reasons for therapy
People seek therapy for many different reasons. It may be anxiety, low mood, or difficulties in close relationships, but it may also be a life crisis, long-term stress, or a sense of feeling stuck and wanting to understand something in your life.
Here you can read more about some of the areas you may seek help with.
Anxiety and worry
Anxiety can take many forms. It may involve constant worry, restlessness, difficulty sleeping, or physical tension. Sometimes thoughts take up so much space that it becomes difficult to find a sense of calm, presence, or direction.
Anxiety is not simply a symptom that needs to be reduced. Often, there is also something that needs to be understood. In therapy, we explore together how anxiety takes shape in your particular life and what may contribute to its emergence or persistence.
Depression and low mood
Depression often involves more than feeling sad. Many people describe a loss of energy, meaning, or connection with things that once felt important. It can become difficult to experience joy or engagement, and everyday life may feel heavy to carry.
In therapy, we try to understand how depression manifests itself in your particular life and how experiences, relationships, and life circumstances may have contributed to how you are feeling. Through this process, new possibilities for change may also become visible.
Relationship Difficulties
Relationships are an important part of our lives, but they can also be the source of many of the difficulties for which people seek therapy. These may involve conflict, loneliness, difficulties with closeness, or recurring patterns that are difficult to change.
In therapy, we explore together what the relationships in your life are like today and how earlier experiences may influence the way you relate to yourself and others. With greater understanding, new ways of relating can also become possible.
Migraine, stress and exhaustion
Living with migraine, long-term stress, or exhaustion can affect the body, emotional life, and your ability to be present and engaged in everyday life.
When difficulties persist for a long time, it can be hard to distinguish between what comes from the body, what is connected to your life circumstances, and what has developed as a consequence of living with the symptoms. In therapy, we explore how stressors, emotions, relationships, and life circumstances interact in your particular situation.
Life crises, traumas and feeling stuck in life
Sometimes life changes in ways that mean what we previously relied on is no longer enough. This may involve loss, separation, illness, or other events that affect our sense of self and our relationships.
At other times, there is no clear external cause. Instead, there may be a sense of feeling stuck, having lost direction, or losing touch with something that once felt alive and meaningful. Traumatic experiences can also continue to affect emotions, relationships, and life long after the event itself has passed.
In therapy, we explore how earlier experiences, what is happening in your life today, and the possibilities ahead of you are connected.
Book an initial session
I offer therapy sessions with a psychologist at my practice in Östermalm, Stockholm, and online.
You are welcome to contact me if you would like to book an initial session or have questions about starting therapy.
Maria Sandgren · Licensed Psychologist · PhD in Psychology
Certified ISTDP Therapist