Welcome

Our lives are not as positive as we had wished or planned for. We often find ourselves in situations that are overwhelming and cause stress. Sometimes, these burdens can become too much for us to bare. Our bodies let us know if the pressure is excessive and ultimately not sustainable. At this point, it is important to take time out and to reflect. It is high time to take stock of the past and present to find an improved approach to life’s journey and challenges.

Individual psychotherapy

Individual psychotherapy is the most classical approach to therapy.
It provides you with the opportunity and personal space to think about yourself. It allows you to discover your dreams and wishes, reflect on your actions and develop your personal thoughts and future. You lead the direction of the discussion, talk about pleasant and unpleasant experiences and your thoughts. The psychotherapist supports you in your personal investigations into emotions and feelings.
Free association is core to psychoanalysis as it allows us to freely share thoughts, phantasies, and anything else that comes to mind. Your spontaneous thoughts are much more revealing than most people assume.

Psychotherapy for children and adolescents

Pressures at school, separation from loved ones, death in the family, migration, abuse and violence can create a high level of stress in children and adolescents. They often find it difficult to deal with these situations and are not in a position or capable to create their own solutions. This results in frustrations and anxieties with symptoms we know well. In children, typical indications are panic attacks, despondency, immature behaviour and bed wetting, as well as inexplicable aggressiveness to key relationships such as parents. In adolescents, we see self-destructive tendencies, retreat, excessive fear of exams, bad school marks and aggressiveness towards those in the immediate environment.
Psychotherapy provides a channel for parents and their children to improve communication, mutual understanding and to work through these situations.

Personal development

Does your life feel like a tread mill? Do you feel like you are lost in the detail of the everyday grind? Have you lost your own great goals and big picture? Do you feel like you are constantly falling into the same traps?
Psychoanalytical therapy can help you to regain your individual orientation in life. This applies to your private as well as professional aspirations. We can work with you to re-develop your own personal goals and ambitions, reenergise your level of motivation and engagement, and raise your levels of self-esteem and assertiveness. Ultimately, we work together so that you know what you want, are happy with your work-life balance, have improved managerial and leadership abilities and are better equipped to achieve your goals.
Our private and confidential discussions will serve to understand and develop your personal strengths, as well as recognise and work on your development opportunities. The aim is for you to achieve greater fulfilment of your personal potentials and life’s goals.

Dr. Ümit May

Based in Vienna, I am a psychoanalyst and therapist for infants, children, and adolescents. I have extensive experience in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, having completed my education at leading universities in Turkey and Europe.

After moving to Vienna, I began my psychoanalysis training at Sigmund Freud University, completing my bachelor's degree in 2015, my master's degree in 2017, and my doctorate in 2023. Currently, I have the privilege of serving as a lecturer at Sigmund Freud University, where I actively contribute to the advancement of psychoanalytic understanding. In 2015, I was appointed to the position of "Psychoanalyst in Training under Supervision " by the Innsbruck Psychoanalytic Seminar. According to Austrian Ministry of Health regulations, I am a certified psychotherapist for infants, children, and adolescents. Since 2015, I have been participating in international seminars and practices on Group Analysis, focusing on group therapy.

As an independent psychotherapist, I offer services in Turkish, English, and German.

Services:

  • Individual therapy for adults
  • Individual therapy for adolescents
  • Individual therapy for children
  • Couples therapy
  • Group therapy

I am actively involved in programs and projects supporting women and immigrants. The traumatic effects of migration have always been a significant concern for me. From 2014 to 2021, I worked as a psychotherapist at the FemSüd Women's Health Center at Kaiser Franz-Josef Hospital in Vienna. Additionally, with the support of WGKK, I organized courses for an anti-obesity project called "rundum gsund" aimed at benefiting Turkish women. My other professional experiences include working at the International Psychotherapy Clinic at Sigmund Freud University, the Headache Psychiatry Clinic for Children and Adolescents at Vienna Medical University (AKH), and school integration projects for children (e.g., Anton Sattler Gasse Middle School).

*More information: Theoretical background ...

Sigmund Freud is considered the “Father of Psychanalysis”. He was the first to consider the mind from a medical perspective. He recognised that early childhood impressions compounded by subsequent experiences can have a positive or negative influence on life. Over the last 100 years, psychoanalysis has been continuously used as a method for therapy.
Today, psychoanalysis provides the basis for psychotherapy. An important aspect today is a value approach tailored to the specific needs and resources of each particular patient.

Therapeutic sessions create the platform where the patient and the therapist review the past to reveal new perspectives and choices of the future.
The therapy setting in the classical psychoanalysis is relaxed and pleasant. The patient either reclines on the couch or in a comfortable chair. The first session is intended for the patient and therapist to get to know each other. The details of the proposed therapy are discussed, and both the patient and therapist commit to taking the first therapy steps together. The patient develops insights about him/herself and his/her environment during the subsequent sessions. The therapy lasts as long as required and depends on each unique circumstance.

Address

1060 Vienna, Laimgrubengasse 17, door 6 (only 5 minutes away from U4 station Kettenbrückengasse)
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Nearest stations

U4 Kettenbrückengasse, U1, U2, U4 Karlsplatz, bus station “Laimgrubengasse” (Linie 57A)

Appointments

by mail or by phone: +43 (0) 699 190 428 94