Otto LaitinenLicensed and verified healthcare professionalLicensed and verified healthcare professional

I am a psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapist, and I work with adults in Sörnäinen and Töölö, Helsinki. You are welcome to come as you are, also when you are not sure what you would like to talk about or what the difficulty is. I work in Finnish and English. My work is based on the view that the mind is formed in relation to other people. Earlier experiences shape how we see ourselves and others. If something has been left for us to carry alone, it can still show today as symptoms or as difficulties that keep repeating in relationships. In a session I listen, ask questions and share my thoughts. I am interested and active, but I leave room for your own thinking. We also pay attention to bodily sensations, because body and mind are connected. You do not need to prepare anything, and I will help if words are hard to find. My background is in mental health and substance use services and in the rehabilitation of neurological illnesses. I have additional training in crisis and trauma work, and I am currently training as a sexual therapist. Services: Long-term psychotherapy, usually as Kela-supported rehabilitative psychotherapy. We meet one to three times a week at regular times. A long process suits you if your difficulties have lasted years or if there are several at the same time, and if you want to understand yourself more widely rather than only remove one symptom. Short-term psychotherapy, about 10–30 sessions once a week. We focus on something more limited: a change in your life situation, exhaustion, or something you want to understand better. A short return period of 3–10 sessions for those who have been in therapy before. This suits, for example, when your life situation changes or familiar themes come back. Before a long psychotherapy begins, we meet a few times. We look at your situation, see how we work together, and agree on practical matters. The first consultation always takes place at the practice, not remotely. Welcome!