Behavior Therapy for Adults

Behavior therapy (BT) is a psychotherapeutic approach that involves different scientifically proven treatments. The patient and the therapist mutually define concrete wishes for change and therapy goals. Specific problems or triggering and maintaining behaviors or conditions are identified. Specific exercises help to achieve changes, e.g. in thoughts, feelings, physical reactions and actual behavior. The newly learned strategies are practiced regularly in between the sessions.

The aim is to get a new view on your own issues, improve coping strategies and increase the ability to solve problems. This way, you can overcome impairments in the long term and discover and develop a new perspective on life.

Therapy services of the outpatient mental health clinic for adult patients essentially consist of diagnostics and treatment of the entire spectrum of mental illnesses. We especially focus on the treatment of:

• Anxiety disorders
• Depression and other emotional disorders
• Chronic pain (e.g. back pain, headaches, fibromyalgia)
• Somatic symptom disorders
• Obsessive-compulsive disorders
• Eating disorders
• Post-traumatic stress and adjustment disorders, personality disorders

During a psychotherapeutic consultation hour it is decided whether psychotherapy can be generally recommended. After that, so-called exploratory sessions take place. The objective of these sessions is to gain a more thorough understanding of the issues, to carry out proper diagnostics and to develop a relationship between patient and therapist. If both decide to carry out psychotherapeutic treatment, a request for outpatient psychotherapy can be submitted to the health insurance provider. In case there are any additional medical problems, we collaborate with the relevant physicians.

Therapy can be undertaken as acute or short-term therapy (up to 24 sessions) or as long-term therapy (up to 60 sessions). Under certain conditions, more sessions are possible. Each therapy session usually lasts for 50 minutes.

Statutory health insurance providers generally pay for a psychological psychotherapy. Private patients should inquire with their payers (e.g. Beihilfe, private insurance providers) to what extent and under what conditions the cost of therapy is covered. We will be happy to help you with the reimbursement.