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Apply for Admission to Cognitive Psychotherapy

Here you apply for admission to cognitive psychotherapy — that is, cognitive behavioral therapy that starts with thinking. The standard path is psychotherapy via video; after each session, you receive a written summary, which is included in the session fee. The day block and the purely written form are also open to you. The form takes you about ten minutes; within 24 hours, Dr. Dietmar Luchmann, LLC replies with an offer or a recommendation.

How Admission Works

Successful psychotherapy is a division of labor. The psychotherapist identifies the thinking errors that produce the suffering and provides guidance on correcting them — but the patient has to make the correction himself. That is why even the admission begins with your own work, in two steps.

First step: You fill out the brief form on this page. It is deliberately kept short and takes you about ten minutes.

Second step: If, on the basis of your information, cognitive psychotherapy is an option for you, you will receive an email from Dr. Dietmar Luchmann, LLC within 24 hours with access to the full admission form; otherwise, you will receive a recommendation. The full form asks for a detailed account of your problem, your goals, and the remaining information about yourself.

This second piece of work is no administrative formality but already the first step of the psychotherapeutic work. The reason is simple: a thought that merely circles in your head cannot be examined; a thought that stands on the screen can — by both sides.

On this basis, the psychotherapists evaluate, free of charge, whether cognitive psychotherapy is suitable for you (initial evaluation). If the evaluation is favorable, we invite you to the psychodiagnostic and probationary assessment, the first stage that is subject to a fee; its cost is given on the costs page.

Which Path You Can Choose

The method is the same on all three paths; only the channel differs.

  • Cognitive Psychotherapy via Video (VCP), the standard path: sessions at fixed times, encrypted in the browser, without an account and without an app; after each session, a written summary.
  • Day-Block Cognitive Psychotherapy (DCP): eight concentrated hours of direct conversation in a single day; it takes place only if the psychotherapists consider it appropriate after the psychodiagnostic assessment.
  • Written Cognitive Psychotherapy (WCP): the psychotherapy entirely in written form, independent of place and bound to no appointments.

Whether the path you want is the right one for you is shown by the psychodiagnostic assessment; a change is possible, provided it makes professional sense. The three paths are described in detail on the page “Cognitive Psychotherapy via Video”; their costs are given on the costs page.

Apply for Admission — Step 1 of 2

Your information is transmitted in encrypted form to Dr. Dietmar Luchmann, LLC.

The suitability test measured how well cognitive psychotherapy suits you. Please state your test result.

As a self-pay patient, you choose on which of the three paths your psychotherapist is to accompany you. The standard path via video is preselected. Whether the path you want is the right one for you is shown by the psychodiagnostic assessment; a change is possible, provided it makes professional sense.

And now the most important part: please choose what comes closest to your concern. If nothing fits exactly, choose the last item and then describe it in your own words.

What Is It About?

Please describe your concern in a few sentences: what is troubling you, since when, and what you have tried so far. At this point we do not need your life story — only enough to judge whether we can help you. The detailed account follows in the second step.

How We Can Reach You

For now, we need no more than this information. Everything else follows in the second step.

The reply with access to the second step will be sent to your email address. Please check it with particular care.

Please repeat your email address to exclude typing errors.

Data Storage and Data Usage

By sending this form via the encrypted connection of your web browser, you permit Dr. Dietmar Luchmann, LLC to store and use your information in order to contact you regarding the psychotherapy. It does not pass your information on to third parties unless required to do so by law.

This online form can only be sent if all data fields are filled out. To ensure that your information has reached us, you will receive a confirmation of receipt on this page immediately after submitting this form.

Confidentiality

Because Dr. Dietmar Luchmann, LLC works exclusively with self-pay patients, it does not pass your data on to health insurers, other insurers, or authorities unless required to do so by law. Written communication in the psychotherapy is end-to-end encrypted (AES-256); the video sessions run without an account and without recording. Details are given on the Data Privacy page.

With the invitation to psychotherapy, you will receive instructions on how to encrypt your messages to the psychotherapist yourself and decrypt his replies.

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