In the therapy room, he focuses on meeting each individual who comes in with an open and curious attitude. He believes that people, by putting into words difficult thoughts and feelings, can help themselves through the most demanding present and past times, and that a good therapist is someone who, with calm and presence and the right tools at the right time, facilitates this process.
The overall framework of the therapy is experiential and psychodynamic, and he uses a wide range of techniques to help you approach the difficult feelings and experiences that are causing problems in your life.
During his time as a therapist, he has gained a lot of experience working with a variety of different types of difficult and traumatizing experiences. In particular, he has had a lot of contact with people who have been exposed to physical, psychological and sexual violence, both as isolated incidents and as repeated experiences in close relationships during childhood.
Enactive Trauma Therapy is an approach to trauma therapy specifically designed to help people with severe dissociative symptoms resulting from traumatic childhood experiences. The method is suitable for helping people with a wide range of diagnoses such as PTSD, Complex PTSD, depersonalization disorder, and dissociative identity disorder (DID).
Victims of war, migration and disasters are also a group he is particularly positioned to help. Narrative exposure therapy is a method that has been specifically developed to help this group, and it is a skill that is relatively rare in Norway.
During his time at the Clinic for Crisis Psychology, he also gained a lot of experience working with grief. Both in acute grief, and through assisting and guiding individuals, families and organizations when a loved one dies.
He has found that close and competent follow-up can make a big difference especially after traumatic deaths such as sudden fatal illness, accidents or suicide. He also has good experience in helping people with complicated grief, where they find it difficult to move on in life even long after the death.
Recently, he has also become more concerned with the relationship between chronic pain and mental illness and trauma, and has therefore begun further training in Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) to better help people who are suffering from pain.
In addition to being a psychologist, he has a one-year degree in creative writing from the Academy of Writing in Hordaland and is very fond of writing and playing music and engaging in creative and artistic work.
No matter who you are, or what you have with you, at Jens-Emil you will experience being greeted with warmth, respect and openness, and a tireless determination to find the right way to help you towards a brighter and easier life.