The Schoen Clinic in Bad Bramstedt is the largest specialist clinic for psychosomatics and psychotherapy in Germany and is located about 45 minutes away from Hamburg in the middle of a soothing forest landscape. Here, you can Bin under the guidance of our experienced medical, psychological, and therapeutic teams. Thanks to our many highly specialised treatment options, we are able to cater to your symptoms individually and offer you the most effective form of therapy.

 

Accommodation is provided in a spacious single room on the Schön Comfort Ward. These rooms feature high-quality furniture and an atmospheric lighting concept. The bed linen is changed every other day on request. An electrically adjustable bed, comfortable seating, and a private desk leave nothing to be desired at any time of day. You can safely store your valuables in your safe. A refrigerator is available in the room for cooling smaller snacks and drinks.

The bathroom, with shower and toilet, has high-quality fittings and offers enough space and room for storing your paraphernalia. The following are also available to you:

• Bathrobes
• On request, fresh towels every day (large shower towel and two other towels)
• Hairdryer
• Body care set
• Slippers
• Make-up mirror (illuminated)

The Schön Comfort Lounge offers you a special place to retreat. Here, you can relax, exchange ideas with your fellow patients, or simply enjoy your coffee or tea.

We spoil our patients with an extensive menu selection. At all meals, we offer you a wide choice of food and drinks. We display the menus on a weekly basis.

We want you to feel good. Our service team therefore takes care of your well-being. Your personal patient carer is available to you for all questions and individual requests.

With us, you will find a place of peace and security, simply a temporary home in which you feel comfortable. You can feel that, for us, you are not only a respected patient but also a welcome guest. A pleasant atmosphere, a comfortable ambience, and warm service are basic conditions that noticeably contribute to the success of treatment.

In cooperation with our medical and therapeutic teams, we coordinate with one another across disciplines and develop an individual treatment plan for you. In the process, an understanding is developed of the relationships, symptoms, and causes of the disorder, as well as of the experience of the impairments. In addition, we take into account individual circumstances and stress factors, which it may be possible to alter therapeutically during the first steps.

You will carry out practice-oriented measures, such as hearing therapy or dealing with noises in the ear, under the guidance of our experts. These would also include handling hearing aids, if this is relevant to you. Our specialists will also guide you in implementing what you have learned independently. Particular attention is paid here to reducing the experience of impairment as a result of ear noises and improving your handling of stress and burdens.

With progressive muscle relaxation (PME), you will learn how to control your internal tension. On top of this, mindfulness therapy, biofeedback, and sports and exercise therapy will also form part of your tinnitus therapy. If you have any questions about medications in connection with tinnitus treatment, our specialists are at your disposal with their expertise.

The treatment concept of the Schoen Clinic in Bad Bramstedt is "guideline-oriented", which means that we work according to scientific findings. Guideline-oriented therapy also includes antidepressants for some forms of depression: with a detailed consultation informing you about and explaining the advantages and disadvantages, the possible side effects, and the benefits for relieving your symptoms, we want to enable you to decide for yourself whether you want to take a medication or not.

For different age and occupational groups, we offer special treatment concepts that are precisely tailored to their respective needs, for example, for older people who are affected, or for teachers. If you have other mental illnesses in addition to depression, we are also able to treat these with specific therapeutic measures. This way, you will be optimally supported on your path out of depression and towards a better quality of life.

Building on this, our experienced experts look to individual psychotherapy with therapeutic sessions. There, you will learn to break the cycle of anxiety by recognising automatic thought and behaviour patterns that crop up again and again in certain situations – and then being able to change them in the next step. A central element of your treatment is also exposure therapy, in which you directly confront the triggers of your anxieties and thereby overcome them.

Your treatment plan will be complemented by relaxation and mindfulness exercises and biofeedback, as well as various sports and exercise therapies. If it is expedient for your treatment, your therapeutic reference persons will prescribe further therapies, such as art and occupational therapy, animal-assisted therapy with a dog, etc. In the case of specific phobias or the occurrence of strong physical symptoms, in particular, it will be necessary and prudent to adapt your treatment plan accordingly.

Our goal is to make you fit for everyday life again quickly and to free you from your anxiety disorder long term with our treatment. We can usually also take into account any mental illnesses that may have onset in addition to your anxiety disorder, such as depression or obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Post-traumatic stress disorder is preceded by a traumatic experience. It will be important to talk about and understand the triggers of your PTSD and your current stresses. Sometimes, a differential diagnosis that goes even deeper is helpful here. The subsequent therapy for the post-traumatic stress disorder consists of three phases:
1.    Stabilisation
2.    Confrontation
3.    Coping with integration

Depending on your individual needs and post-traumatic symptoms, we will supplement your treatment plan with additional offerings, such as mindfulness training, biofeedback, movement and creative therapies, or relaxation procedures. If your post-traumatic stress disorder is particularly pronounced, we can also support your therapy with medication.

The International Patient Management in Bad Bramstedt is your central point of contact as a patient from (non-EU) countries. You can contact us in all matters relating to your stay. In close coordination with the doctors, we offer you support in all administrative matters of your planned stay.