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Depression is an affective disorder that can manifest itself as a depressed mood, negative thoughts, low mood and listlessness, loss of appetite, insomnia and even pain. In addition to high-frequency individual therapy (with up to five individual sessions per week), we rely on a multimodal, guideline-based treatment concept with elements of gestalt therapy, physiotherapy, sociotherapy and pharmacotherapy.

Burnout is a state of emotional and physical exhaustion caused by prolonged stress and overburdening. Patients suffer from a lack of energy, fatigue and accompanying depression. Our treatment focuses on the individual stress-triggering factors. As part of the therapy, we work together to create lists of priorities and to activate the patient's own resources in order to strengthen their resilience.

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that follows one or more stressful experiences of extraordinary or catastrophic proportions (psychological trauma). The threatening situation may have been experienced directly by the person, or witnessed and experienced by others, such as witnessing a serious accident or an act of violence.

Our treatment approach is based on the proven method of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) to reprocess the stressful memory. The patient follows the therapist's fingers with their eyes while the therapist moves their hand alternately to the right and left. The brain uses this stimulation to activate its own self-healing powers and process the stressful memory.

In an acute crisis, people lose their inner balance when they are confronted with situations or circumstances that they cannot cope with at that moment. Thoughts and feelings are disturbed, and your thoughts go round in circles. The aim of our crisis intervention is to address and work through current conflicts or immediate triggers of the crisis as quickly as possible through brief but intensive psychotherapy. At the same time, we work on overcoming the problem in order to achieve acute relief.

A personality disorder is a deeply ingrained pattern of behaviour that manifests itself in rigid reactions to various life situations and has a massive impact on the quality of life of the person affected. The main types are borderline, antisocial, narcissistic, schizotypal, assertive, dependent and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders. We begin by working with our patients to develop realistic treatment goals. Using behavioural and depth-psychological intervention techniques, we identify the reasons for current behaviours that are distressing or obstructive to the individual, in order to achieve a gradual and lasting change in behaviour.

There is often a link between cardiovascular disease and psychological conditions such as depression and anxiety. Our multidisciplinary treatment team therefore provides patients with a comprehensive treatment plan that covers both aspects: In addition to intensive inpatient psychotherapy, we support our patients throughout their stay with cardiological expertise and cardiological diagnostics and monitoring.

Eating disorders such as binge eating and bulimia, and the obesity that often results from them, are often caused by dysfunctional regulatory mechanisms, i.e. eating behaviour compensates the difficulties in dealing with emotions. We work with our patients to identify the reasons for these dysregulations and help them to develop and practise alternative functional regulatory mechanisms.

Somatoform disorders are long-lasting physical complaints for which there is no clear medical cause. They often involve pain in different parts of the body (e.g. back, stomach, head or joints) or dizziness, digestive problems, and heart and breathing difficulties.

These complaints are often representative of unresolved psychological conflicts. With the help of dedicated biographical work, we help our patients to recognise connections between the lack of solution strategies and the simultaneous occurrence of physical complaints. An important basis for this is the understanding that mind and body form a coherent unit (=psychosomatics).

Nightmares can wake you up and make you feel exhausted. Those who suffer from them regularly often develop a fear of falling asleep. To get back to a restful sleep, we teach patients how to control their dreams. In the first step of our nightmare therapy, we improve general sleep hygiene and use relaxation and imagery techniques. In the second step, we work on the content of the dream using imagery rehearsal therapy.

Surfing, chatting, playing games: The Internet has become an integral part of our daily lives. On average, we spend several hours a day online. The line between this and internet addiction is often blurred. As it is difficult to give up online media compared to other addictions, treatment aims to teach people how to use the internet responsibly while developing their social skills in the real world.

Note: It is important for the success of treatment that family members are also involved in this form of therapy.

A panic attack is a single, sudden physical and mental panic reaction, usually lasting only a few minutes, without any recognisable external cause. People are often unaware that their symptoms are an expression of a panic reaction. The vegetative reactions in the body, which are originally designed to provide energy (and therefore survival), are experienced as (life) threatening, which further intensifies the panic. Our therapy therefore focuses on learning strategies to calm oneself. In addition, we use exposure techniques, i.e. the conscious confrontation with anxiety-provoking situations, in order to reduce the symptoms of anxiety, which are usually experienced as excessive.

For many people with cancer, the diagnosis is an existential threat. Anxiety, helplessness and mood swings can lead to severe psychological crises and depression. The KIRINUS Alpenpark Klinik specialises in the holistic care of patients in their physical and psychological imbalance. Our aim is to accompany you through this difficult phase of your life and help you activate new resources.

*Brooding is not a diagnosis in its own right, but a symptom associated with many psychosomatic conditions.

Our compact four-session per week brief psychotherapy focuses on resolving conflicts and developing behavioural goals.

The therapy includes:

• Full board residential stay
• Review of how to deal with stress and excessive demands
• Suggestions for self-care
• Suggestions for competent communication strategies
• Learning relaxation techniques
• Activating of resources
• Presentation of resilience factors

Individual therapy lasts 13 days and can be booked prior. If necessary you can also book an appointment for a preliminary consultation. For further information, please contact our patient services department.  You can reach us daily from 8am to 4.30pm on +49 8022 846-0, by email at alpenparkklinik@kirinus.de or via our contact form.

Our four session per week burnout prevention course is particularly suitable for managers, teachers or carers who feel they are already overstretched at work but still have room to manoeuvre.

The therapy includes the following services:

• Full board residential stay
• Information on symptoms, risk factors and the onset of mental or physical symptoms
• Seminars on sleep, stress and pain
• Individual participation in a sports and exercise therapy programme to activate resources

The short psychotherapy lasts 13 days and can be booked prior. If necessary you can also book an appointment for a preliminary consultation. For further information, please contact our patient services department. You can reach us daily from 8am to 4.30pm on +49 8022 846-0, by email at alpenparkklinik@kirinus.de or via our contact form.

Our couples coaching is an individual therapy for psychotherapeutic support in uncovering conflicts within a partnership and reducing the potential for conflict. It is particularly suitable when conflicts become more frequent and communication within the partnership is no longer respectful.

The therapy includes the following services

• Full board residential stay
• Opportunity for self-reflection in individual therapy
• Development of competent communication strategies within the partnership
• Individual and couples therapy
• Development of conflict resolution strategies
• Activation of resources.

Compact Therapy lasts 13 days and can be booked prior. If necessary you can also book an appointment for preliminary consultation. For further information, please contact our patient services department. You can reach us daily from 8am to 4.30pm on +49 8022 846-0, by email at alpenparkklinik@kirinus.de or via our contact form.