Muttha Chitranukroh Vatthanachit

Clinical Psychologist

Muttha Chitranukroh Vatthanachit, Clinical Psychologist (licensed), B.A. Clinical Psychology( Thammasat University ), M.Sc. Mental Health( Chulalongkron University )

What is Psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy finds ways of helping people overcome
issues related to stress, emotional problems, relationship problems or troublesome habits. There are many different types of psychotherapy, but the common feature is that they are all “talking treatments”.

Who needs therapy?
People generally seek treatment for emotional problems when they recognise that their feelings and symptoms have begun to cause problems in their day to day life. These people realise that what once may have seemed to be a relatively minor problem, has taken over their life. Other people may seek treatment as the result of difficulties with family, friends or work. Whether the problem is depression, anxiety, anger, substance abuse or a combination of symptoms, their life has become difficult to manage.

What I can offer you?

Psychodynamic psychotherapy
This may involve quite brief therapy for specific difficulties. However, if problems are long-standing, treatment may mean attending sessions over many months. The focus is on the feelings we have for other people, especially family and those close to us. Treatment involves discussing past experiences and looking at how these may be affecting the present. Gaining an understanding of this frees a person to make choices about what happens in the future. Behavioural psychotherapy

This therapy looks at changing troublesome behaviour patterns. It is particularly effective for anxiety, panic, phobias, obsessive-compulsive problems and for different kinds of social or sexual difficulty. Treatment involves helping patients overcome fears by spending more time in a situation that makes them anxious, or by learning ways of coping with and subsequently reducing their anxiety.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
This therapy aims at changing thinking patterns through discussion. By looking at how we think, we can be helped to get rid of destructive thought patterns. The treatment focuses mainly on the present and future, rather than on the past. It has been particularly successful in treating certain types of depression.

Family and Marital Therapy
We all have a similar basic concept of a ‘family’, and of the different roles within the family of a father, mother, son, daughter, husband, wife, brother, sister, etc. However, none of us come from the same family background and our experiences can be very different. These differences can cause feelings of inadequacy in relationships, which often lead to misunderstandings, miscommunication and conflicts over child rearing. By focusing very clearly on the relationships involved, and by involving all the people concerned, family and marital family therapy seek to help those relationships to work better.