Systemic psychotherapy, LLC

Introduction

Andrea De Ott has established Systemic Psychotherapy (SP) to bring her years of clinical practice and university-level scholarship to those who need effective healing psychotherapeutic interventions.

Systemic psychotherapy focuses on understanding and addressing issues within the context of systems, particularly relational systems such as families, groups, or communities. It operates on the premise that individuals do not exist in isolation, and their behaviors, emotions, and thought patterns are influenced by the relationships and systems they are part of. Therefore, she includes the family system in her assessments and clinical treatment.

Also, she created a dance movement technique called flamenco psychotherapy, aiming to decrease stress and survival responses to trauma. She has a mental health advocacy approach to therapy because she also suffers from a mood dysregulation disorder and she is a survivor of complex trauma. She is a migrant, and acculturation has been a subject of research, as well as her main social policy interest. Thus, she learned flamenco to help her decrease psyche-somatic symptoms. She earned the Robert Mayer Award from Fordham University in 2013 when she graduated from Fordham University and she also taught Family Systems Therapy.

What is Systemic Psychotherapy?

According to Andrea De Ott, Systemic Psychotherapy is a style of psychotherapy that enlarges the therapeutic elements of the working alliance between therapist and patient into a holistic approach taken from the clinical social work notion of person in the environment. Thus, while systemic psychotherapy aims to change the person’s response to its environment; it also aims for change in the systems affecting individual development, such as family, culture, issues of oppression, life purpose, and work activities. Therefore, she sustains that political issues and social issues also affect the mind’s proper functioning.

To attain this broad goal, we use a diverse range of clinical techniques, starting from family systems theories (structural, experiential, existential, solution-focused, emotion-focused, among others) and moving forward into more specific techniques depending on the client's need such as art therapy, CBT, DBT, TST, REBT, mindfulness, and psychodynamic techniques to analyze the therapeutic alliance.

S.P. takes on the service of psychotherapy as a spiritual concept that integrates science and art for the betterment of humanity and earth-y living.

— Andrea De Ott