Erika Kovács works as a psychotherapist for children, adolescents and adults, and participates in the team performing complex ADHD assessments for adults at Panoráma Polyclinic.

She graduated from the psychology department of the University of Debrecen in 1999. Afterwards, she worked at the Department of Developmental Neurology at the Svábhegyi Children’s Hospital where she participated in the examination of infants with birth defects and the psychological support of their families. Since 2008, she has been working at the Pedagogical Specialist Service of District XI, providing educational counselling and expert assessment of integration, behavioural and learning difficulties. In 2004, she obtained the title of clinical child and adolescent psychologist at Semmelweis University, in 2006, she obtained a method-specific qualification in relaxation and symbol therapy at the Hungarian Association of Relaxation and Symbol Therapy, and in 2012, a psychotherapist qualification at Semmelweis University. In the nearly 20 years spent in health care and then in educational counselling, she has gained experience in the assessment of the intellectual and emotional development of infants and young children, in processing mother-infant relationship difficulties, in psychological support for families raising disabled children, in consultations and therapies with young children, adolescents and parents. Since qualifying as a psychotherapist, she has also conducted adult therapies and to broaden her knowledge, she has completed theoretical seminars of Transference Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) in adolescent and adult method-specific training.

She is a regular participant in professional forums and has been a speaker at conferences of the Journal of Adolescent and Child Psychotherapy and the Psychoanalytic Association. In the course of her work, she considers it important to participate regularly in experiential therapy and supervision.

Main areas of expertise are

For children, adolescents:

• changed behaviour
• emotional-mood fluctuations
• anxiety
• disturbances related to temper regulation
• integration difficulties
• learning problems
  
  

For adults:

• the need to deepen self-awareness
• stress management
• crisis situations (divorce, illness, bereavement, etc.)
• parenting dilemmas
• conditions associated with anxiety
• mood instability
• disturbances related to temper regulation
• relationship problems
• ADHD diagnostics within the framework of a complex examination
  
  

’In my therapeutic work with psychodynamic approach, it is important for me to pay close attention to the children and adults who come to me, to be open and to think together. To understand and process problems, to increase the flexibility and adaptability of the personality, in addition to verbal content, we also call on symbolic meanings expressed in games, fantasies and dreams, as well as what is happening in the therapeutic relationship. As a member of our team with psychosomatic approach my work also focuses on exploring the connections between physical and mental events.’