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Simone Webber, M.Sc., BA., B.pth.

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praxis@psychoanalyse-wien-webber.at 

+43 676 4732920

Wickenburggasse 3 / 11, 1080, Wien

 

Psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy 

 

Psychotherapist (iAuS) // Psychologist

“In psychoanalysis, when approaching the unconscious — that is, what we do not know — we, patient and analyst alike, are certain to be disturbed. In every consulting-room, there ought to be two rather frightened people: the patient and the psychoanalyst. If they are not both frightened, one wonders why they are bothering to find out what everyone knows.”
 

Wilfred R. Bion in "The Tavistock Seminars"

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Services

Psychoanalytically-oriented Psychotherapy (1–3 times/week, seated face-to-face)

Psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapy is not about learning new skills or techniques of self-management for the mere sake of symptom reduction. The scope of the therapy is more profound and involves a process that can be slow and long. One of the central psychoanalytic aims is to create an experience that will produce a lasting and pervasive change in your ability to live life more freely and fully. During this form of therapy, you will enter into a very particular kind of relationship with the therapist. This relationship comes to involve, over time, a deep sense of openness and honesty that is not possible elsewhere in our daily lives and that functions as a transformative vehicle. In and through this relationship, we both try to work through the unconscious dynamics that are unfolding in the session, creating opportunity for emotional experiences and growth.

This form of therapy is based on a challenging process, in which you try to speak increasingly more freely about yourself. You will be tasked to provide the raw material of your lived experiences, your day-to-day-thoughts, your feelings, sufferings, pains, your dreams, and simply the stream of consciousness that passes through your mind at the present moment within the session.

Psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapy is practiced in a face-to-face, seated setting and involves a minimum of one session and up to three sessions a week.

 

Psychoanalysis (3–5 times/week, on the couch)

Psychoanalysis does not radically differ from psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapy in its core orientation, aims and style. The main difference is that it is practiced within the couch-setting and that it involves a minimum of three and up to five sessions a week. While this might sound quite intense and challenging, the higher frequency often allows for the perception of more space and less of a feeling of rush. Trust in the process and in its development over time can emerge within a very idiosyncratic pacing. Lying down on the couch usually facilitates one’s ability to talk freely, openly and to think and introspect without feeling pressured. It also facilitates the analyst to reach a state closer to an evenly hovering attention.

 

Online psychotherapy/ consultations (1–3 times/week, videocall)

If your current life circumstances make it impossible for you to reach out to me by physically coming to my office (e.g. you are living abroad, you are living with a specific health condition which makes coming to my office impossible or especially difficult, etc.), you can contact me for starting a process online (through videocall). During the Covid-19 pandemic I have collected experience with this specific modality of conducting a psychotherapy and have since then left certain slots open for online psychotherapy.

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“Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves. We all have self-cures for strong feelings. Then the self-cure becomes a problem, in the obvious sense that the problem of the alcoholic is not alcohol, but sobriety. Drinking becomes a problem, but actually the problem is what’s being cured by the alcohol. By the time we’re adults, we’ve all become alcoholics. That’s to say, we’ve all evolved ways of deadening certain feelings and thoughts. One of the reasons we admire or like art, if we do, is that it reopens us in some sense — as Kafka wrote in a letter, art breaks the seas that’s frozen inside us. It reminds us of sensitivities that we might have lost at some cost. […] It’s as though one is struggling to be as inert as possible — and struggling against one’s inertia.”

Adam Phillips in "The Art of Nonfiction No. 7" (Interview with Paul Holdengräber)

Areas of special focus

  • Anxiety and panic attacks

  • Depression

  • Mourning, loss, separation, death

  • Relationships

  • Attachment difficulties

  • Love and romantic partnerships

  • Sex, sexuality and gender

  • Trauma, PTSD and c-PTSD

  • Psychosomatic complaints

  • Dissociation, absent-mindedness, split/fragmented/dissociated personalities

  • Obsessionality and compulsions

  • Personality disorders, borderline personality organization

  • Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders (e.g. schizoaffective)

  • Diversity-oriented approach (therapy inclusive for people on the trans-spectrum)

  • Bodily distress and difficulties with bodily experiences

  • Dream-focused work

 

It is time that the field of mental health gets progressively destigmatized! Seeking help can but does not need to come from a feeling of crisis.

Psychotherapy should not be a tool for "normalization" and adaptation to normative ways of being in the world. It is an attempt to take ourselves and our surroundings seriously and not, at least for the most part, a quest to fit into something more unproblematically.

Fees

Fees are negotiated at the beginning of the therapy process and are based on level of income. I make a number of lower-fee-spaces available for those who would otherwise be unable to afford the treatment. Sessions cancelled less than 48 hours in advance are due in full. It is important to me that the analysand pays according to his or her income level.

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