There are many interesting views on this. I think it´s very hard to be sure about how to choose and I´m afraid that a T will seem competent at first but not when we come to dig deeper into my issues.
I don´t really know what to ask about either, I mean, in a first session. I already know the two T:s I´m about to meet, that they aren´t psychologists but welfare officers/social workers and then they´ve gone through an education to become psychotherapists. Both are at their 60s and above.
What problems/issues/diagnoses have to be, very generally speaking, dealt with by a psychotherapist who´s also a psychologist? I ask this because those being a psychotherapist but not a psychologist has less education and, at least in my country, often work at councellors at schools and so on, not just in the more "heavy" medical field of psychology.
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Originally Posted by rwither1
I'm a master's level therapist in the US. Sure, there is a difference between a therapist and a psychologist, but they also are trained to do different things. Psychologists, generally speaking, do testing and evaluation. Depending on your condition, this may be totally irrelevant. Or maybe it is, depends on what you're dealing with. But I would not look at level of education, but rather the rapport you establish with them, their personality, their theoretical orientation. So much of this profession has to do with the relationship. Level of education is only one of many factors to use in making this decision. It's certainly not the most important. But like I said, depends on what you are seeing a therapist for.
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