Inger Säfvestad: Psychotherapy,Supervision and Jungian Analysis

Consulting rooms in Stockholm (Skanstull): Gräsgatan 8, SE 118 60 Stockholm

Ph: 0046703984186 E-mail: i.safvestad@gmail.com Website: www.ingersafvestad.se

 

 

>    Short term therapy, coaching, crisis therapy, consultation about specific life situations and choices.

>    Long term psychotherapy and Jungian analysis, for people who prefer having a more open ended  

      perspective and being less focused on specific issues.

>    Supervision of psychotherapists and people in the caring professions.

>    Workshops and short courses in Jungian and creative subjects.

>   Languages: Swedish and English.

 

About My Way of Working; Basic views and methods

As a psychotherapist and analyst I work from a basic psychodynamic and  developmental vantage point. I view the

unique experiences of the client’s and his or her ways of expressing themselves as central. I follow the client’s own

‘language’, whether it appears in the form of stories, concrete descriptions from everyday life or in a more symbolic form,

like an image or a bodily expression. I also use dreams and daydreaming for reaching levels within, which are not very

conscious but which colours experience and behaviour. Understanding the patterns governing our ways of viewing

ourselves and dealing with relationships, entails both looking back as  well as developing a perspective on what may

lie ahead in life.

 

People who experience a life crisis, with sudden and perhaps traumatic losses of work, health or somebody close,

often would need a more supportive way of working.

 

My Background; professional experiences and accreditations

After having worked as a psychotherapist and supervisor in Ireland for twenty years, I have now returned to Sweden

and opened a private practice in Stockholm. For the first twenty years as a psychologist in Sweden, I was working with

early parenthood and with treatment of small children and their parents. Parallel with this I kept a private practice for

individual psychotherapy. 

 

In Dublin I founded ’The Irish Institute for Integrated Psychotherapy’, together with Patrick Nolan. We also

edited the book ‘Object Relations and Integrated Psychotherapy. Tradition and Innovation in Theory and Practice’.

I worked as a psychotherapist, supervisor and teacher within this institute, and facilitated many workshops for

psychotherapists. I also taught at several trainings in psychotherapy in Ireland. My main subjects were: modern theories

of development, body oriented methods, the use of imagery and art as an important part of the psychotherapeutic process.

I have always been making my own art as well over the years, and in Sweden I have exhibited in many galleries and art

clubs within companies and institutions.

 

My accreditation as a psychologist I got 1978, as a psychotherapist 1991, and as a clinical psychologist 1995.   

In Ireland I got a Master’s in Systemic Family Therapy 1991. I have also completed a course in Body oriented

psychotherapy, based on psychodynamic theory (Svenska föreningen för kroppsorienterad psykoterapi).

2007 I completed an education for a Jungian Analyst, and got a full membership of ‘The International Association

for Analytical Psychology, IAAP’.

 

If you leave a message by phone or e-mail, I will normally be able to reply within a few days.

Books and Articles

   "Hemma, vad är det? Om att ha fotfäste, tappa det och kanske hitta ett annat..." (2011)

Ord och bilder funna och målade av Inger Säfvestad. Förlag: i.safvestadbooks, Stockholm.

   "Att arbeta med drömmar i Jungiansk Analys" Kapitel i en ny småskrift kring CG Jung och den analytiska

psykologin, utgiven av Svenska CG Jungstiftelsen 2011.

   "När är det dags att lägga av? En betraktelse kring avslutandets ambivalens, kring 60+."

Artikel i "Insikten" nr 3, 2010

   "Installationsföreläsning av Daniel Stern. Forms of Vitality." Artikel i "Insikten" nr 5, 2009

   Object Relations and Integrative Psychotherapy. Tradition and Innovation in Theory and

Practice’.(2002)  Edited by Inger Säfvestad Nolan and Patrick Nolan. Published by Whurr, London.

   ‘Astray in the DarkForest’. “Flyga vilse i Nattskogen". (2005)  A story painted and told by  Inger

Säfvestad Nolan. Published by IIIP Books, Dublin.

   ‘If I Only Have A Hammer Everything Looks Like Nails’. Article in ‘Eisteach’, Winter 1999

   ‘Imagery and Art as Symbolic Language in Psychotherapy’. Article in ‘Eisteach’, Summer 1996

 

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