This Fireside Chat will focus on therapeutic work with inner critic.
Self-critical processes are present in many mental health difficulties and can interfere with recovery. Depression, personality disorder, eating disorders, addictions have commonly experienced negative self-evaluations. Many approaches deal with negative thinking, however chronic and long-standing critical processes can be resistant to change using cognitive approaches. Experiential approaches work directly with these processes and may lead to an internal shift in experience.
One approach to managing inner criticism in chronic presentations will be presented: emotion focused therapy.
The facilitator, Dr. Katarina Timulakova, is a certified emotion focused therapist, with extensive experience in mental health services.
The topics covered are:
1. Intro to Emotion focused therapy
2. Introduce work with critic - two chair dialogue.
Participants will have the opportunity to consider how the presented topics can be applied to their daily practice.
Speaker Information
Dr Katarina Timulakova is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist with the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI), working as the Principal Clinical Psychologist Manager in St Vincent’s Hospital Fairview, mental health services Dublin.
Katarina is currently holding office of the PSI council Honorary Secretary, Chair of PSI Division of Clinical Psychology and a full member of the Division of Psychotherapy.
She is certified person centred therapist, emotion focused therapist and advanced schema therapist.
If you have questions about the event, please contact the Division of Psychotherapy.