Dr. Diana Schaffer
As a clinical and health psychologist and medical scientist, I see it as my calling to help people overcome life crises, to develop new perspectives and to accompany them through the change processes.
Psychological problems or Chronic pain usually arise from emergency situations that people live in or that happen to them a lot of suffering accompany.
That's why it's important to me with my clients Options for quickly effective, 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, work Talking therapies with the cognitive regions of the brain, the seat of thought. A trauma, often that basis for psychological suffering, but also affects the emotional part of the brain, the difficult through conversations can be achieved. The emotional part of the brain also controls the body via the autonomic nervous system (e.g. heartbeat, blood pressure, digestive tract). If an emotion is very intense, it can no longer be influenced by willpower and thoughts and is therefore difficult to influence through conversation or behavioral therapy. Made possible here EMDR and Neurofeedback the Processing content in the deeper layers of the brain, where traumatic experiences are also stored.
I work with techniques from different therapeutic directions:
Regular training and internships in various Clinics at home and abroad enable me to do that latest findings and treatment methods successfully applied in my practice.
Education, experience, 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 (Neurolinguistic Programming)
Bachelor's degree in organizational psychology and computer science, University of Klagenfurt
Internships or internships in mental health facilities at home and abroad
- Multimodal pain therapy and pain clinic, LKH-Klagenfurt
- Urbachtal acute 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 further education
- Fitness trainer
- Cranio-Sacral Balancing
Psychological management at FRÜHPOWER
Family intensive care worker at Auxilior
BFI trainer for job seekers
Clinical psychologist i.A.u.S. in 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 feeling. (Master's thesis)
Online questionnaire design to evaluate websites. (Baccalaureate thesis)
Project management viewed from a communication structure perspective. (Baccalaureate thesis)
Migraine and burnout as a stress reaction (dissertation)
Manifestations, causes and consequences of a social feeling. Diana Schaffer, 2016.