Individual Meeting
Psychotherapy
for people who believed that there are suffering from emotional/addictive/binge overeating which leads to overweight and obesity. After the 1-5 intake’s meeting I choose one of the two technics:
a) The first one is CBT where I try to help my patient to be more aware to the reasons why they are eating without being hungry. In the C.B.T approach we try the to help the patient to be more aware about connection between events, emotions and behaviors.
For example – how breaking off in a romantic relationship can makes us feel abandoned, helpless, sadness and only food helps us to cope and suppress those feeling. In the therapy, we can help the patient to connect it to similar sequence from the past). There some patient (30% from my experience) that this kind of work (cognitive understanding) can help them to feel strong and in control and eventually can make some changes in their relationship with food and eating.
b) My main technic of working with my patients is self-psychology. For the majority of the patient suffering from eating disorder the CBT’s technic in not enough. Most of them need to work on their “basement”, meaning on the trauma that took them far away from their natural and true self. This distancing also had a lot of effect on their relationship with food and eating because they lost the connection to their hunger-satiation’s signal. The Self psychology's psychotherapy of Heinz Kohut aims to establish a healing relationship between the therapist and the patient that will enable to restart his/her emotional body-mind growing process which is stuck for years.
The therapist will need to response accurate to the need that will arise. If the therapist will be empathic and “good enough” self-object he will pave a rehabilitation healing process (“the restoration of the self”) that based on the ability of the therapist to understand the patient from “inside”. And if so, the patient will feel much stronger, quiet and full of joy so he would be less fragile and will need much less emotional eating to calm himself down.
One of the main perspectives in this paradigm is about the resistance of the patient. In the self-psychology’s, psychotherapy we try not to interpret the resistance as a defense’s mechanism of the patients but rather as a deep yearning for an empathic respond. I still remember one of my patients that whenever felt that I am not listening to her carefully and reacting to her un-emphatically, used to tell me “You went once again to your path, please came back to my path”. I gradually succeeded to hear her calling and whenever I respond:” you are right”, her body mind’s language become quiet and after years of work she also changed her eating’s patterns.
Supervision
Individual’s meeting with psychotherapists that studied clinical psychology, clinical social work and family’s therapy. The supervision is based on the self-psychology paradigm.
Consultation’s meeting
With individuals that feel that they need a change in their life and trying to find their new path in life.
Roni Maislish, M.S.W – A clinical social Work (2008) and Psychotherapist (2011). He also studied for 3 years in a second psychotherapy program: "Self-Psychology and the Therapeutic Act". Roni has experience of 5 years working with eating disorders patients in "Soroka" hospital in Israel. He also works in his private practice as psychotherapist with patients suffering from emotional eating which lead to obesity and teaches therapists about this topic (2008-2024).
To schedule a 15 min free conversation with Roni regarding therapy process (one on one) please send an email to [email protected]
