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Old Jan 08, 2016, 07:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Jaybird57 View Post
This is a really important recommendation, WTR. Therapists will list technique after technique in their Psychology Today and website bios, stating they offer a variety of different therapy approaches. Many techniques/therapies have very specific certifications requirements (ex. DBT, EFT, EMDR, Transference Focused Therapy, Mentalization Therapy etc.). Some therapists will go to one or two "general" CE workshops on a technique, which is actually just a day or two lecture on how the technique works or the basic tenets of how it addresses a certain mental health issue, and then the therapist lists themselves as "using" that therapy method in their own practice. Not kosher in my opinion, and one of the reasons a client needs to really check a therapist out. This practice is one of the reasons I say that there is a lack of "oversight" in psychotherapy.
In response to your post, I did check out this therapist in the EFT (Johnson) list and she is officially certified. Not that it sounded like she was into EFT with individuals anyway, but at least she puts her money where her mouth is.