Oivalluksen kaarisilta · Heini Sirén
A bridge to insight and change
A bridge toward what comes next.
Sometimes life brings situations where your own ways of coping no longer feel enough, or you have lost your sense of direction. It can help to pause, be heard and explore together what is happening in your life, relationships or work.
Explore the services
Oivalluksen kaarisilta is a journey you do not have to make alone. Just as an arched bridge supports a person crossing from one shore to another, insight can help you see your situation in a new light and find the next step.
You do not always need to know what lies ahead. Sometimes finding a small sense of direction and taking one step forward is enough. In time, a new view may open up, with room for change and hope.
Every change begins somewhere. Sometimes it begins with an insight.
Services
Different situations call for different kinds of support. Short-term cognitive psychotherapy and crisis conversations offer individual support. Stabilisation groups provide a chance to grow stronger together. Workplace mediation supports teams, while intercultural training creates space for shared learning and new insights.
Short-term cognitive
psychotherapy
Support in understanding your thoughts, feelings and ways of responding.
Crisis conversations
A calm place to talk about a difficult situation and find a way forward.
Stabilisation
groups
Ways to understand emotions and manage strain in a small group.
Workplace mediation
Constructive dialogue about conflict and working together.
Training and
coaching
Tailored sessions on multiculturalism and encounters across cultures.
Short-term cognitive psychotherapy
In-person appointments in Porvoo are currently available for women and couples. Men can attend online.
Sometimes your thoughts or patterns of behaviour begin to feel burdensome or hard to understand. Do difficult thoughts seem to take over or guide what you do? You may not always understand why you react in a particular way, or you may feel that you are not entirely free to choose how to respond.
Short-term cognitive psychotherapy helps you understand your experiences, thoughts, feelings and patterns of behaviour. The work focuses especially on the present and the future. Together, we can identify limiting thoughts and beliefs and explore new ways of relating to them and acting.
We also work with your strengths and resources. The aim is to deepen your understanding of yourself and strengthen your ability to influence your own life.
Ask about psychotherapyCrisis conversations
An event can sometimes stop you in your tracks and unsettle familiar everyday life. A crisis may be related to a loss, a relationship, a change, work or another unexpected situation.
Crisis conversations offer a calm place to pause and talk about what you are going through. They provide support when your thoughts and feelings feel too heavy to carry alone. Together, we can make sense of the situation, reflect on your thoughts and feelings, and look for ways forward.
Sometimes one conversation is enough. At other times, a few meetings provide the support you need to work through the situation and find your direction. You do not have to know in advance how many meetings you need. We can decide together what feels right for you.
Ask about crisis conversationsStabilisation groups
A stabilisation group offers a safe space to pause and attend to your experiences and feelings. In the group, you can gently work with difficult emotions, strengthen your resources and better understand how earlier experiences or possible trauma may affect your mind, body and daily life.
You never have to share more than you want to. The aim is not to examine traumatic experiences in detail, but to better understand your situation, strengthen your sense of safety and find ways to support your wellbeing.
The group uses stabilising methods that build on personal resources. They can help you recognise your needs, feelings and reactions and find workable ways to manage strain.
Groups that meet a few times can also suit immigrants of different ages. Together, participants can strengthen everyday resources, a sense of safety and confidence in their ability to cope.
Ask about a groupWorkplace mediation
Workplace mediation helps build a more functional and safer working community. Restorative mediation makes space to address difficult situations, hear everyone involved and find solutions together that support future cooperation.
Mediation need not focus only on resolving an existing conflict. Talking together can also reveal patterns within the workplace, help agree on shared ways of working and rebuild trust. Mediation can therefore help prevent future difficulties and support wellbeing at work over time.
I offer restorative mediation for workplaces, with an emphasis on being heard, increasing understanding and building better cooperation. I also have experience mediating in multicultural workplaces, where different backgrounds, experiences and ways of working may bring particular considerations to cooperation.
Discuss your workplace situationIntercultural training and coaching
I provide tailored training and coaching for a range of organisations, especially on multiculturalism and encounters across cultures.
I have more than 30 years of experience working with refugees, immigrants and multicultural communities in Finland and abroad.
Training and coaching can be designed, for example, for:
- Professionals working with immigrants in the public, private and third sectors.
- Immigrants and groups from different backgrounds, according to their needs.
- International students who need cultural orientation and support in settling into a new environment.
- Employers of immigrants who wish to strengthen intercultural understanding and cooperation in their teams.
- People preparing to work abroad, with therapeutic small groups and cultural orientation before departure.
About me
I am Heini Sirén from Porvoo. I meet each client with warmth and respect and treat everyone as an individual.
My work brings together expertise in psychosocial support, long experience in multicultural social work, therapeutic training and skills in trauma and crisis work. I use these to build on people's strengths in different life situations.
It matters to me to see people as experts in their own lives and help them find new perspectives and possibilities. I encourage individuals and groups to recognise and use their strengths when facing change, a crisis or another difficult period.
More than 30 years of work with refugees, immigrants and multicultural communities have deepened my understanding of different life situations and cultural backgrounds. I believe that being heard, reflecting together and even a small insight can open a way towards a new direction.
Heini Sirén
Training
- Short-term cognitive psychotherapy (not Kela reimbursed)
- Trauma support person training, debriefing
- Workplace mediation
- Crisis and trauma peer support
- Specialist diploma in crisis and emergency situations
- Mental Health First Aid, SafetyStories
- Master of Social Services (UAS)
- Vocational teacher education student (AmO)
Prices
Services are exempt from VAT.
Individual therapy
45-minute appointment
Individual therapy
60-minute appointment
Couples therapy
60-minute appointment
Couples therapy
90-minute appointment
Prices for groups, training and workplace mediation are agreed separately. These services can also take place outside Porvoo.
Ask for an appointment or a quoteGood to know
Who is short-term cognitive psychotherapy for, and where do meetings take place?
In-person appointments in Porvoo are currently available for women and couples. Men can attend online. The work explores thoughts, feelings and behaviour, with a focus on the present and future.
How many crisis conversations will I need?
Sometimes one conversation is enough; sometimes a few meetings provide helpful support. We can decide on the number of meetings together, based on your situation.
Do I have to talk about difficult experiences in a group?
You do not have to share more than you want to. Traumatic experiences are not explored in detail. The work focuses on safety, personal resources and managing strain.
What is the aim of workplace mediation?
The aim is for people to be heard, understand each other better and rebuild cooperation. We can also agree on shared ways of working and identify practices that help prevent further conflict.
What are the prices and practical arrangements?
Individual appointments last 45 or 60 minutes and couples appointments 60 or 90 minutes. See prices. Please email to ask about prices and practical arrangements for crisis conversations, groups, training and mediation.
Which languages are available?
Services are available in Finnish and English. In-person appointments take place in Porvoo. Groups, training and workplace mediation can also be arranged elsewhere.
Is psychotherapy reimbursed by Kela?
Short-term cognitive psychotherapy is not reimbursed by Kela.
Contact
Ask about therapy, crisis conversations, groups, workplace mediation or training. You can use the form or send an email directly.
Send an emailHeini Sirén
Porvoo
- heini.amiina@gmail.com
- Languages
- Finnish and English
- Appointments
- In-person psychotherapy appointments in Porvoo are currently available for women and couples; men can attend online. We can agree on the exact location and arrangements when you get in touch.