During my telephone office hours you may schedule them- (Tuesday 13-13:30 and Thursday 15:00-16:00)
(Waiting times for treatment vacancies - see under INFO on the homepage
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Telefon number: 116117.
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I was born in Heidelberg in 1977, I am married and have two daughters.
Education: Psychology degree in Heidelberg and Montpellier. In 2005 I received my diploma and began my professional training as a psychological psychotherapist at the IFKV in Bad Dürkheim (2010 license as psychological psychotherapist).
My first professional position was at the Westpfalzklinikum Kaiserslautern (2006-2007). Afterwards I worked as a as a therapist for individual and group therapy until 2015 at the Psychosomatic Clinic Bad Dürkheim (AHG Clinic for Psychosomatics). Since 2015 I have my own therapy practice in Mannheim:
Personal interests and overlaps with my profession: Making and listening to music. I play both guitar and percussion instruments myself. One of my passions is providing music therapy in both individual and group settings. Behavioral therapy methods in particular offer interesting possibilities for integrating music into the process.
I hold the license to practice behavioral therapy (license in Rheinland-Pfalz). This means that the focus of my work is primarily on changing your patterns of behavior and experience. I would like to help you to be more flexible in everyday life and to learn how to deal with feelings better.
Widening your behavioral scope, as well as working on attitudes, values, and automated patterns of experience, self-esteem stabilization, and enhancing your social skills can be a key approach in the process.
In my practice, I follow different therapeutic focuses within the framework of behavioral therapy: Emotion-focused work, trauma-therapeutic treatment approaches, schema-therapeutic techniques, skill training/self-calming techniques, self-management methods training, resource-based and values-based work.
I treat specific symptoms such as depressive symptoms, anxiety, compulsions or trauma-related symptoms using special methods from behavioral therapy. Exposure techniques, work on harmful thoughts, reduction of avoidance behavior, self-soothing techniques could be for instance effective components of a therapy.
I also use EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) as a method. See more about this on emdr.de. On the website you will find a wide range of information about this method. This method is explicitly used in the treatment of trauma, but its basic understanding also offers many ties to behavioral therapy.
This is a service for people with statutory health insurance that I can offer promptly, even if I have no more therapy openings. The goal is to give me an overview of your complaints, to do an initial diagnosis and to help you find the right treatment option for you, e.g. to find out which therapy method is suitable for you (behavioral therapy, depth psychology-based psychotherapy or psychoanalytic treatment). I will then also assess whether outpatient treatment is sufficient or whether you initially need inpatient treatment.
If it is determined in the initial sessions that you need therapeutic treatment quickly, I might also initiate a short-term treatment of 12 sessions, a so-called acute treatment, if there is sufficient available capacity. This does not constitute a short-term therapy or long-term therapy, but is intended to provide the quickest possible help for a psychological problematic situation. Following this treatment, a long-term or short-term therapy can be initiated.
Short-term therapies include 2 times 12 sessions. These are initiated after a minimum of 2 probationary sessions*.
Long-term therapies comprise 60 sessions, which can also be initiated after at least 2 probationary sessions*.
Probationary sessions always take place before a therapeutic treatment and allow you as a patient to check whether you can imagine a therapy with me and for me as a therapist to check whether I can help you to work on your therapeutic goals or whether, if necessary, another treatment method would be more appropriate (depth-psychologically based psychotherapy or a psychoanalytic treatment). A maximum of 4 probationary sessions can be conducted.
Since I, as a psychological psychotherapist, am not a physician, I request an examination by your family doctor or specialist (e.g. neurologist or psychiatrist) at the beginning of therapy in order to rule out an organic cause of your psychological complaints.
Analía Julia Vieytez, M.A Sociology
Substitution in the practice does not take place during vacations. Also on weekends and after closing time of the practice the local clinics are to be visited in case of crises/emergencies.
At the respective place of residence, the local psychiatry - in Mannheim the ZI - is then responsible for the citizens of that city.
The practice is an appointment-only practice. Appointments are made by telephone.
Telephone consultation hours twice a week (days specified on the answering machine. Usually Tuesdays 13-13:30 and Thursdays 15:00-16:00.
Please call me during phone hours to schedule an appointment. If you leave a message on the answering machine and request a call back, I can not guarantee a timely response. Therefore, if you do not hear from me within the following days, please call again during the calling hours.
Dipl.-Psych. Heiko Schmidt Rennershofstraße 3 68163 Mannheim Tel.: 0621-83267140.
Competent supervisory authority: State Chamber of Psychotherapists Baden-Württemberg, Jägerstr. 40, 70174 Stuttgart Tel: 0711-674470-0.
Responsible Association for Public Health Insurance Physicians: KV Baden-Württemberg, Keßlerstr. 1, 76185 Karlsruhe.
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