Bibliotherapy with Adults
“A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.”
- Graham Greene, novelist and author
Bibliotherapy is a therapeutic method aimed to help individuals and groups express themselves in an indirect route, based on their interaction with a text. This therapeutic process is based on the idea that we all recall our life experiences through the storytelling structure, as something with a beginning, a middle and an end. Problems may arise when we start to feel our story has become incoherent when we experience multiple inner stories that collide, or even feel like we don’t have a story at all.
During the sessions, I use various texts as a tool to evoke a range of emotions in the patient by employing reading or writing interventions. This process is called the 'aesthetic distance’, it allows one to reduce their inhibitions and project their inner emotions on the text, which becomes like a ‘third voice' in the room.
Bibliotherapy with Adults
Adults Individual Sessions
The length of sessions is 50 minutes per session
Individual sessions are suitable for adults and adolescents from the age of 12 who are experiencing various mental distresses such as anxiety, loneliness, depression, inability to manage routine, or any other issue or experience in which one may feel the need for support.
Individual sessions give a person full attention to tell their story in their own way. The story is then carefully mirrored to the patient in a more coherent and manageable way, enabling them to contain the experience and gain relief.
Individual Sessions
50 min
Face-to-face/Online
Parents and Caregivers Counselling
The length of sessions is 50 minutes per session
These sessions are suitable for parents/caregivers, in whichever family structure they are in, who experience challenges in their parenthood.
Raising children is a challenging experience. Some may face everyday challenges more easily, while others may experience the same challenges far more severely. It may relate to the child’s temperament, that of the parents/caregivers, the dynamic between them, a combination of all the above, or many other reasons.
Parents and caregivers counselling is focused on the patient’s personal parental hardships and dilemmas. Bibliotherapy may be an effective tool to identify projections one might have on the child. This may help to discuss certain beliefs and parental behaviours and by that, reduce distress.
Parents&Caregivers Counselling
50 min
Face-to-face/Online
Dyadic and Family Treatment
The length of sessions is 40-50 minutes per session (depending on the child’s age)
Dyadic and family sessions are designed for children and their parents or caregivers who wish to address challenges in their child-parent/caregiver bonds. These sessions focus on the relationships between all participants, exploring the dynamics and unique connections between each parent/caregiver and their children. The family is viewed as a whole within a systemic framework.
Unlike traditional counselling sessions, each meeting focuses on one dimension of the relationship, and it shifts every week between different caregivers.
The sequence varies according to the family’s needs and structure.
Dyadic and Family Treatment
40-50 min
Face-to-face/Online