I have worked as a psychologist for almost 20 years, and I am still grateful for my career choice. Getting to get so close to people's lives and stories feels like a privilege, and it is great to experience that therapy processes contribute to change.
Throughout life, we may experience imbalance and unresolved pain for shorter or longer periods that become too heavy to bear alone. To protect ourselves from the painful, we may engage in ways of thinking, feeling and behaving that inhibit life development; as an individual, couple or family.
In therapy, we give ourselves time and space to look closely at what is
actually moves, in order to also be able to change the patterns that inhibit. By working with this in therapy we can experience greater choices and room for action, where the good in life has greater space.
In-depth work with both youth, adults, children, families and couples has given me a particular interest in life's transitional phases, development and attachment. Life is full of changes and transitions, and we are constantly in motion. For example, it can be about going from child to adult, entering or leaving a relationship, having children, the children moving out, or entering retirement.
In transitions, we may be forced to re-examine ourselves, our experiences, and our relationships. It can be painful, but it also offers great opportunities for development. In therapy, we can work with the developmental forces within us and find good ways forward.
I have training and specialization in intersubjective, developmental psychodynamic therapy and emotion-focused couples therapy (EFT-C). I also like to supplement with elements from other traditions when this appears effective. People are complex, and I am always open to thinking creatively to move forward in a process.
It is important to me to invite you into a living therapy space where there is room for you, you and life just as it is; the skinless, the painful and vulnerable, the existential, and also humorous sidelong glances and vivid fantasies. There may be many tears along the way, and also laughter. I meet all my clients with genuine commitment, warmth and clarity.
I look forward to welcoming you; alone, as a couple or family.
Ellen Sofie has an office at Akersgata 1.