A clinical psychologist has lots more training than a social worker and has a year "internship" also. There's a difference in their education. But I think everyone, educated or not has their own pet ideas :-) some more "out there" than the next. That's why one is supposed to shop around until they find someone they feel they can work with because research is showing that it's often the relationship between the therapist and the client that is more important than any particular education or theory learned in school. Therapists aren't "better" than other people, they just have a different education. I'm reminded of overhearing one of my doctors, a general practitioner, on the phone with another patient and how she joked she only got a "C" in bone setting/broken bones. It startled me and made me realize there are lots of skills that go into being a therapist and some people may be better or worse at some skills than others with or with some people and not others. It's not an exact science and I've never known education to equal intelligence and common sense. I've known too many people with 4.0 averages who have no common sense or ability to function in the "real" world.