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Originally Posted by WishfulThinker66
First off, one needs to establish what sort of therapist is conducting the treatment. Merely being called a 'therapist' is no guarantee that they are an actual psychologist. Don't make the mistake of assuming this as such. There are counselors out there sometimes with little more than a quick online seminar who practise therapy. There are those with some limited background in therapy like social workers and so on. As the client, you need to determine just who and what you are getting.
I came across what felt like an online therapy scam recently. The therapists turned out to be social work students. In other words, I was no more than their guinea pig to practise on. The infuriating part of this is that this was covered by the provincial health care plan - tax payers are paying for this farce.
And how was the therapy? It was a standard CBT therapy that was pretty much verbatim from the books I have read. What a waste of my time.
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In the US, where OP is, therapy is a protected term. You have to be licensed in the state in which you practice to provide therapy - and not with some weird counseling diploma from an online seminar.
As for your bizarre opinion that only psychologists are qualified to provide therapy, that's not who provides the majority of therapy down here. Most therapists are master's level clinicians, not psychologists. And guess what - studies show no difference in outcomes associated with the type of license your therapist has. So you're just as well off with an LCSW (licensed clinical social worker) as with a PhD psychologist.