Dr. Diana Schaffer
As a clinical and health psychologist and medical scientist, I see it as my calling to help people through life crises, develop new perspectives, and accompany them through the change processes.
Mental health problems or Chronic pain These situations usually arise from emergency situations in which people live or that happen to them, and with much suffering to go along.
Therefore, it is important to me to work with my clients. Options for a rapid, efficient and long-term improvement of symptoms to find and the zto treat the underlying disorder.
the Conversation, targeted psychological techniques and the ability to Analysis of the origins of behavior Understanding is an essential part of my job.
However, they Talk therapy with the cognitive regions of the brain, the seat of thoughts. A trauma, often the Basis for psychological suffering, but also affects the emotional part of the brain, the difficult to achieve through conversations It is possible to achieve this. The emotional part of the brain simultaneously controls the body (e.g., heartbeat, blood pressure, digestive tract) via the autonomic nervous system. If an emotion is very intense, it can no longer be influenced by willpower and thoughts, and is therefore also difficult to access through talk therapy or behavioral therapy.. Here it is possible EMDR and Neurofeedback the Processing content in the deeper layers of the brain, where traumatic experiences are also stored.
I work with techniques from various therapeutic approaches:
Regular training courses and internships in various fields Clinics at home and abroad enable me to latest findings and treatment methods I have successfully applied this in my practice.
Education, experience, further training
Doctorate in Medical Sciences, University of Rostock
EMDR-Europe Practitioner and Consultant
ROMPC-Therapist
Training as a clinical and health psychologist, University of Klagenfurt
Master's degree in Psychology, University of Klagenfurt
NLP Practitioner (Neuro-Linguistic Programming)
Bachelor's degree in Organizational Psychology and Computer Science, University of Klagenfurt
Observation or internships in mental health facilities at home and abroad
- Multimodal pain therapy and pain clinic, Klagenfurt Regional Hospital
- Urbachtal Acute Care Clinic, Germany
- South Florida Integrative Medicine Center, USA
- Ketamine Health Center, USA
- Origins Substance Abuse Treatment Center, USA
- Rogers Behavioral Therapy Center, USA
- The Counseling Group DBT, USA
- Equilibrium centro therapeutico, USA
- Coral Gables Counseling Center, USA
- Oliver Pyatt Eating Disorder House, USA
- Clementine South Miami, Eating Disorder House for adolescents
Various training courses on the topics
- trauma
- pain
- Biofeedback
- Neurofeedback
- Evaluation of work-related psychological stress
- Social Competence and Organizational Learning
Body-oriented training courses
- Yoga teacher training and continuing education
- fitness trainer
- Cranio-Sacral Balancing
Psychological leadership at FRÜHPOWER
Family Intensive Caregiver at Auxilior
BFI trainer for job seekers
Clinical psychologist iAuS at the Pro mente rehabilitation clinic for mental health
Currently Freelance psychological practice in Vienna and Klagenfurt, as well as seminar work (e.g. for Academy for Trauma Therapy)
Envy. Manifestations, causes, and consequences of a social emotion. (Master's thesis)
Design of online questionnaires for website evaluation. (Bachelor's thesis)
Project management from a communication structure perspective. (Bachelor's thesis)
Migraine and burnout as a stress reaction (Dissertation)
Manifestations, causes, and consequences of a social emotion. Diana Schaffer, 2016.