How Can I Discern if I Would be a Good Psychotherapist?

Date May 4, 2011

After several years of working as a home visiting special educator for a state program that serves children with disabilities and their families, I am thinking about making the jump to psychotherapy. I have a master’s degree in a human services field / helping profession, but the degree does not lead to licensure [...]

I don't know what to do with my life.?

Date March 22, 2011

I am 14.. I am not popular at school (I hate using that term, it feels stupid) and I’ve never been. From 1st grade to 4th grade I was verbally and physically attacked by my school colleagues, and my teacher was a bitch (sorry, but it’s really the adequate word), she would never care about [...]

Can you become a Psychotherapist/Counsellor from a Certificate in Psychotherapy?

Date December 16, 2010

Hi, My friend wanted to know if he could become a counsellor/Psychotherapist from a CERTIFICATE in psychotherapy.
He is 17 years old and is about to apply for an DISTANCE COURSE where you pay £425 (or monthly installments) for the course it lasts about 6-7 months and you gain a "receive a Level 4 Award in [...]

Isn't this Psychotherapy wrong? Infridgement of privacy!?

Date October 11, 2010

So I was going to this Mental Health place (Jewish Board of Family and Health Services) for help. That is where my mom goes to. Her Therapist is the Manager there. Anyway I wrote my total probles on a paper because I have some Cognitive Dysfunction so I would forget and I also have Anxiety. [...]

Do Divorced Women Suffer From The Glass Ceiling ?

Date October 10, 2010

Now that the Global Financial Crises has hit are women now being disadvantaged ?
Example..
News that John Cleese has successfully halved his £1.3 million annual divorce settlement has surely come as a relief to the Monty Python star, who had complained bitterly that at the age of 69 he would be required to continue working in [...]

Why is this Psychotherapist…?

Date August 30, 2010

Why is this Psychotherapist pushing the parent of a person with problems to do something, which makes them feel even worse?
This Psychotherapist is considered a good psychotherapist and is the manager but her telling to pressure the parent’s adult child is making the kid feel worse. I don’t think that is good, in fact I [...]

What do I need to know about Psychotherapy and Psychiatry? (I'm in AS level right now)?

Date August 15, 2010

Hi,
I’m in year 12, taking biology, chemistry, psychology, maths + statistics and critical thinking. (My target grades set by the school are all A’s and one B in the summer)
I have a few questions:
1) What’s the difference between the two? (Content related and what the jobs actually do?)
2) What would be the average salary difference?
3) [...]

Courses to take in high school to be a psychotherapist?

Date May 30, 2010

Hey ok so i wanna be a psychotherapist but i’m unsure of what subjects i should take. I made a list and i’m only required to take 7 but i want to take 8 so it’ll look better for college.
1) Elementary Math (took this already)
2) English (took this already)
3) Additional Math
4) English Literature (I [...]

If I'm single, unemployed and miserable do I have any right to give advice on how to be happy, successful?

Date May 2, 2010

I consider myself to be intelligent and wise, well-travelled and experienced. I enjoy answering psychology questions on Yahoo and am on a course to train to be a psychotherapist. I’ve even written a book on life-philosophy! But I am on anti-depressants and currently unemployed, massively in debt and haven’t been in a committed long-term sexual [...]

I'm fed up with this - what do you think?

Date April 24, 2010

I think I finally know what to do: I phoned psychotherapy today… here’s a run down of the last 9 months: July, I research into all my symptoms, and believe I have BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder) and realise I need urgent treatment.. August, I go to the doctors, I tell them I think I have [...]

How do i tell my parents I have OCD?

Date March 23, 2010

No one on my house ever cleans after themselves, and I’m pretty sure I have OCD. Everything bothers me.
My sister is especially annoying.
I’m 13.
I don’t know how to tell them, because, we live in Australia, but speak another language, I can’t tell them in English, because they won’t let me speak English at home, and [...]

I need to find a college in Sweden or Germany.?

Date March 3, 2010

I need one that has sociology and psychology classes (my goal is to become a psychotherapist) and it must be in or near a city so modeling will be easy. I’m probably asking for a college that doesn’t exist but if you have some suggestions I would appreciate them. Preferably one that offers english courses [...]

Do you like this Joke?

Date February 27, 2010

Dr Peter, a psychotherapist wanted ‘Sign board’ to be
pained in front of his hospital and got a sardarji to do it.
but the Sardar painter, who was a master in english painted,
"Dr Peter, Psycho The Rapist"

tell me about falling in love formy english class discussion? also read this and say what do you get from that

Date February 19, 2010

Falling in Love
Of all the misconception about Love the most potent one is about "Falling in Love".
When you you say I am falling in Love, we certainly mean- "I love him" or "I love her". But two problems are immediately visible. The first is that the experience of falling in Love is specifically a sex-linked [...]

Question for Psychotherapists or Counsellors

Date February 16, 2010

I have been working in the Mental Health Field for now 5 years, running groups like Anxiety Management etc but now I would like to get a degree qualification in Psychotherapy, do you know of any Universities that run a course on this whereby at it actually leads you to be an actual Psychotherapist?