Mag. Regina Rettig-Reisinger

Areas of Focus

I offer psychological and psychotherapeutic counseling and treatment as well as support and guidance on the following topics and difficulties within the framework of Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy:

• Anxieties (Specific Phobias, Social Phobias, Panic Attacks, Generalized Anxiety Disorder)
• Stress, Crises, and Adjustment Disorders
• Burn-Out
• Depressive Disorders, Manic-Depressive Illnesses
• Dissociative, Conversion, and Somatoform Disorders
• Women’s and Gender Issues
• Life Crises and Meaning Questions
• Psychological Problems Related to Physical Illnesses (e.g., Cancer)
• Partnership and Relationship Issues

• Personal Development and Self-Experience
• Personality Accentuation, Disorders, and Behavioral Abnormalities (e.g., Borderline Personality, Narcissistic Personality, Insecure Personality, Compulsive Personality)
• Psychosomatic Disorders
• Stress Coping and Stress Management
• Death, Grief, and End-of-Life Support
• Compulsions (Obsessive Thoughts and Actions, e.g., excessive washing or checking)

What is logotherapy and existential analysis?

Logotherapy and existential analysis developed by Viktor E. Frankl understands humans as meaning-oriented, responsible, and dignified beings. Psychological suffering often arises where central questions of life and meaning remain unresolved. Existential analysis provides the image of humanity, while logotherapy is the practical, meaning-centered psychotherapy that accompanies it.

Techniques of logotherapy

Through the techniques of paradoxical intention, dereflexion, attitude modulation, and enhancing meaning perception as developed by Elisabeth Lukas, the intuitive, social, cognitive, and creative-spiritual abilities of humans are to be strengthened and further developed in recognizing and implementing meaningful solutions in specific life situations. Central to the client-therapist relationship are personal encounters and a client-oriented ethic.

Aims of therapy

The aims of a psychotherapeutic treatment are the regaining of a meaningful and valuable life, the strengthening of love and work capacity, as well as a meaningful approach to experiences of suffering. This activates the human will for meaning and supports those healthy aspects of human personality and their environment that contribute significantly to healing and alleviating symptoms of illness, as well as to meaning orientation and the reorganization of experience and behavior.

How does therapy proceed?

In sessions, strategies are developed and practiced that can be helpful for a problem. Essential for the success of therapy is that you learn to transfer these strategies into everyday life. A significant part of this therapy also includes therapeutic homework.

What is important for the success of therapy?

Therefore, for the success of therapy, it is important not only that you regularly attend the therapeutic sessions and actively participate, but also that you utilize the time between sessions to integrate what has been discussed into your daily life. In the sessions, the homework is reflected upon. Therefore, it is essential that you also schedule time for therapeutic homework in addition to the actual therapy times.