Psychotherapy
Dr. Patricia Ortiz is an AHPRA-registered osteopath and PACFA-registered psychotherapist with extensive experience and training in childhood trauma, PTSD and CPTSD. She takes an integrative approach to mental health, combining her expertise in both physical and psychological therapies to provide comprehensive care.
Psychotherapy is a general term for treating mental health problems by talking with a mental health professional. It can help treat challenges and symptoms relating to mental health and emotions, to understand your strengths and weaknesses, develop strategies to deal with difficult emotions and triggers and much more.
Integrative therapy is a psychological approach to talk therapy that accepts and uses multiple other approaches that involves selecting the techniques from different therapeutic orientations best suited to a client's particular problem. By tailoring the therapy to the individual, integrative therapists hope to produce the most significant effects. It allows for a better adaptation of the therapy to the distinctive characteristics and needs of each client. An integrative psychotherapist believes there isn't just one therapeutic approach that can help a client in all situations. Instead, they take into account you as an individual and your circumstances, and use elements of different approaches to help you explore and cope with your problems.Dr Patricia uses a combination of neuroscience and the most recent evidence about physiological responses to trauma in conjunction with cognitive and somatic approaches, attachment theory and polyvagal theory. Each person is unique therefore the approach is tailored for each individual.
Cognitive approaches address your thinking, perception, memory, attention, processing. It challenges your limiting beliefs and helps you to reframe and/or change them.
Somatic approaches use techniques that addresses the dysregulation of your nervous system and the physiological responses to trauma.
Integrative therapy is a psychological approach to talk therapy that accepts and uses multiple other approaches that involves selecting the techniques from different therapeutic orientations best suited to a client's particular problem. By tailoring the therapy to the individual, integrative therapists hope to produce the most significant effects. It allows for a better adaptation of the therapy to the distinctive characteristics and needs of each client. An integrative psychotherapist believes there isn't just one therapeutic approach that can help a client in all situations. Instead, they take into account you as an individual and your circumstances, and use elements of different approaches to help you explore and cope with your problems.Dr Patricia uses a combination of neuroscience and the most recent evidence about physiological responses to trauma in conjunction with cognitive and somatic approaches, attachment theory and polyvagal theory. Each person is unique therefore the approach is tailored for each individual.
Cognitive approaches address your thinking, perception, memory, attention, processing. It challenges your limiting beliefs and helps you to reframe and/or change them.
Somatic approaches use techniques that addresses the dysregulation of your nervous system and the physiological responses to trauma.
Integrative psychotherapy can help with:
- PTSD
- C-PTSD
- Chronic pain
- Developmental trauma
- Pain related to a traumatic event
- Abuse and neglect
- Low self esteem
- Depression
- Anger management issues
- ADHD
- Loss and grief
- Phobia
- Flashbacks
- Panic attack
- Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Limiting beliefs
- Addictions
- Much more...
Some of the techniques and approaches used:
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
- Process Work
- Attachment based therapies
- Strength Based
- Hypnosis
- EMDR
- Schema Therapy
- Gestalt
- Body psychotherapy
- Craniosacral therapy
- Functional medicine
- Brainspotting
- Applied neuroscience
- Parts work
- NLP
- CBT
- Havening technique
- Polyvagal theory
- Fascial release
- Chinese medicine
- Functional nutrition
If you are unsure if this approach is suitable for you, please contact me to book a free 15 minutes consultation (on zoom or phone call)