Individual therapy – get the help you need and move on

With me, individual therapy is organised based on the needs and challenges you bring. I take you from where you are and help you get to where you want to be.

Through therapy you can achieve:

  • Ability to let go of restlessness, anxiety and mental barriers
  • Concrete strategies to improve your mental health and balance
  • Better ability to communicate clearly and set boundaries in a healthy way
  • Greater awareness and insight into your own patterns of action - including those that limit you
  • Ability to manage the worries and negative thoughts that otherwise rule your life
  • Greater self-esteem and ability to live the life you want
  • Better relationships, both in your private and working life

Learn more about how I work on this page.

I work on several levels and always adapt the therapy to you

Individual adaptation

I have experience with several different therapeutic pathways. In the therapy, I select precisely the elements that best meet your individual needs and promote your optimal development and well-being.

The unconscious made conscious

Therapy will bring to your conscious any unhelpful patterns of action and help to acknowledge feelings you may have gotten used to neglecting. It is the key to managing the symptoms that limit you from living life to the fullest.

A confidential room

As a psychologist, I support you in understanding why you do what you do – even when it does not immediately create well-being. Therapy is a confidential space where you can talk freely and honestly about all the challenges you face in life.

Both body and psyche

I work from a holistic view of the human being. In the therapy, I therefore also help you get rid of tension and stress, which would otherwise accumulate in the body and cause psychological symptoms in themselves.

Short time horizon

Therapy is never a quick fix. However, if you are motivated to work deeply and honestly with your emotional life, the therapeutic approaches I use make it possible to achieve results relatively quickly.

Documented effect

I primarily practice within the ISTDP method, but also integrate elements from cognitive, psychodynamic and emotion-focused therapy. All approaches have documented therapeutic effects.

Therapy with me typically extend over 8-12 sessions

A therapy course with me is sometimes ultra-short and sometimes very long, but typically we will meet 8-12 times. In the course you gain greater insight into what your challenges consist of, uncover habits that hinder you, and discover ways in which to move forward. You may also receive exercises that suit your particular situation, for you to apply in your daily life. All therapy is tailored to your needs.

Feel free to contact me if you want to know what a therapy course could look like for you

Individual therapy helps you get back to well-being – no matter what challenge you come up with

My clients come with everything from deep personal problems that have followed them through large parts of their lives, to life crises that have arisen with external events such as a divorce, dismissal or illness. Many also have a desire to improve a specific relationship, for example with their children, spouse or boss.

The symptoms are many, but examples of challenges I often encounter when giving therapy are:

  • Stress, overthinking and sleep-trouble
  • Sadness, emptiness, hopelessness
  • Anger, frustration and disappointment with the outside world
  • Guilt and shame over something you have done (or not done)
  • Self-critical thoughts and the feeling of not being good enough
  • Lack of impact, motivation and focus
  • Anxiety and worries
  • Grief and crises
  • Trauma

Below you can learn more about some of the problems clients come to me with again and again. But everyone comes with a unique set of circumstances and I welcome getting to know you and providing you with exactly what you need from therapy.

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Rediscover the joy of life

You know how sometimes life goes on autopilot? Everything is actually ok. You cannot point a finger at your partner, your children, your home, your job, your finances or your free time. Yet you feel alienated from it all and unable to appreciate what you have. Secretly, you dream of something else – but can’t put into words what, exactly, is wrong.

On top of it all, you may also feel bad that you are not satisfied. Perhaps you are even ashamed that you don’t feel joy, and you cannot be anything for yourself or your loved ones.

In this course, we examine together where your doubts have come from and what is needed to rediscover the joy of life. If you’re ready to go deeper, we also work to dissolve the patterns that prevent you from filling the joy bubble up.

The focus of the therapy is:

  • To investigate where your doubts have arisen from
  • To find the confidence to handle your doubts
  • To find a way back to the joy of life

Stand stronger in yourself

How do I uphold my personal limits? How do I say no? How do I handle rejections?

Influence is largely about knowing what you want and what you stand for. It implies that you know your own limits and stand by them, and that you’re able to communicate them in a clear and friendly way.

Impact is also about trusting that one’s being or person is fundamentally good enough – even if one is not perfect and makes mistakes. That you dare to think something, even if others think otherwise. It is essential that one can relinquish the responsibility to make everyone happy, and in the extreme is able to reject others or to be rejected himself.

Therefore, the therapy is largely about your inner compass. When your inner navigation is in order, you stand more confidently by yourself. You will not have to drum others up, but can express your needs – even when they contradict others.

The focus of the therapy is:

  • That you become aware of your own limits
  • That you will be able to communicate your boundaries calmly and effectively
  • That you get strategies for dealing with resistance and disagreement
  • Staa staerkere i dig selv
  • Opnaa stoerre selvvaerd

Achieve greater self-esteem

This course is for you who always make an extra effort, both in the family, your friendships and at work. You who always take on the task when others underdeliver. You, who always make an effort, without, however, experiencing that your efforts are noticed and appreciated.

You often feel inadequate. That no matter what you do, it’s never good enough. People might take advantage of you a little. And when you speak up, no one listens, and you end up being responsible for everything and everyone anyway.

It may also be that for so long you have had so much focus on others that you find it difficult to feel yourself. You are unsure of what you actually want and need. It creates a lot of unfortunate situations, where others again and again violate your boundaries, and you yourself fumble around for your own way.

Either way, this course will help you (again) put yourself before others. We work with your integrity and your self-esteem as a person. We also find the strategies that mean that you are partly able to meet your own needs and partly that others will no longer take your efforts for granted.

The focus of the therapy is:

  • That you get to know your own limits
  • That you become aware of what is yours and what is other people’s
  • That you know how to speak up when others make unreasonable demands

Learn how to deal with stress and exhaustion

It can feel like an endless struggle, where each day is unbearable. It can feel as if even the smallest tasks are impossible to overcome and make you cry. Even as you fight to keep your head above water, energy seems to slip away from you like water through your fingers.

Though you may wish to reach out for help, the thought of doing so can seem overwhelming. Treatment can be like a guide, showing you the way out of a foggy valley. It can help you rediscover your strength and find direction again.

Through therapy, you can begin to rebuild your resources and learn to handle stress in a healthier way. Self-care becomes your ally, and gradually, you regain control of your life. With time, you can rediscover the joy of living and feel capable of facing life’s challenges again.

The focus of the therapy is:

  • That you gain an understanding of how to take care of yourself
  • That you start rebuilding your resources and find direction again
  • That you will learn to handle stress in a healthier way
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Change unhealthy habits

Alcohol. Smoking. Party drugs. Overeating. Internet porn. Endless one-night stands. Self harm. Game. Whatever unhealthy habits you have, you probably feel compelled to continue even though you know you should not. You have long since discovered that your behavior has a price. Both for your health – and because it comes between you and the people you care about.

If you are like most people, you have probably also tried to change your self-destructive habits for periods over many years, but without success. You have experienced relapses, frustrations and powerlessness. You feel trapped, and have probably also lost faith that it will ever be different. But it IS possible.

In this course you get help to change habits. It requires a determined effort on your part, but when you gain a greater awareness of your own patterns and identify the emotions that drive the habits, you also gain the strength to break them. We work in depth with your situation and the strategies that will contribute to you being free again.

The focus of the therapy is:

  • That you gain an understanding of the mechanisms that control your own behaviour
  • That you become aware of the unconscious actions and feelings that keep you trapped
  • That you – step by step – manage to dissolve the destructive habits

Be free from psychological violence

Why do I stay when my partner treats me so badly? Why can’t I figure anything out?

Psychological violence often comes with strong feelings of guilt and shame, but it is not you who is wrong. On the contrary. It is part of what you are exposed to that you experience it this way.

If you are exposed to psychological violence, gaslighting or other traumatising manipulation, it can be difficult to believe in your own perception of reality. Having a partner who does not take one’s emotional life and experience of the world seriously is a tremendous emotional strain. Most people begin to question themselves and feel like they are going crazy when they are constantly feeling and reacting to something they are told is not real.

Therapy is a fantastic help here. By creating awareness of the behaviour you are exposed to and how it affects you, you gain a greater understanding of yourself and why you are unable to simply remove yourself from the situation. You also learn how to protect yourself from psychologically manipulative behaviour and how to regain confidence in your own judgement.

The focus of the therapy is:

  • To investigate whether – and to what extent – ​​you are exposed to psychological violence and manipulation
  • To make an informed choice about how you want to deal with it (for example, should you stay or should you go?)
  • That you learn to see through, and therefore protect yourself better against, psychologically manipulative behaviour
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Prices & subsidies

  • PSYCHOLOGIST INTERVIEW, 50 MINUTES
    DKK 1,300
  • PSYCHOLOGIST INTERVIEW, 80 MINUTES
    DKK 2,000
  • PSYCHOLOGIST INTERVIEW, 100 MINUTES
    DKK 2,600
  • PAYMENT VIA INSURANCE OR COMPANY
    DKK 100

As a member of Sygesikringen “danmark” you get a subsidy for psychological help of DKK 300 per session. (DKK 450 per session if you are between 16 and 25 years old).

Just remember to tell me about your membership when you book your first session. It is not necessary to be referred by your own doctor first.

Book your sessions online

If you would like to work with me, you can easily and quickly book an appointment via my online calendar. I offer sessions both in my clinic in Vanløse and online via video.

If you have any questions about how I would be able to help you, please feel free to contact me for a non-binding telephone conversation first.

Julia Ahlbom, Licensed Psychologist

Ådalsvej 1, kld
2720 Vanløse

+45 50 28 40 66
info@juliaahlbom.com

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© 2025 Julia Ahlbom

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