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What Do Practicing Psychotherapists Do?

Nowadays, in the age of constant stress and rush the profession of psychotherapist is becoming more urgent. Indeed, it is far more efficiently to solve life’s problems with a specialist, rather than to do it on your own. Psychological knowledge helps people to cope with numerous difficult situations in many areas of their lives: family, work, health, self-knowledge, and other.

Professional counselor is the specialist, who can advise you on how to achieve a success in a career, find a life partner, to improve health, etc. The advantages of working with a psychotherapist are obvious. Possessing a specialized knowledge a counselor sees the situation more deeply, which allows him to diagnose and determine what prevents a person from achieving or having something that he was looking for.

Psychotherapist will always find the right way to eliminate the negative processes that occurs in the person’s inner world. After all, it is necessary to mention that the problems in life don’t come from nowhere. Happiness or unhappiness are the result of our inner world work, the whole universe with its mysteries and deep processes. Sometimes these processes aren’t working correctly, violating the harmony and person’s emotional state. This is the situation that requires the psychotherapist intervention.

Many people dream to change their lives in a flash, like in the fairy tale. And it’s possible to do this with professional counselor help. However, it is necessary to understand that miracles don’t happen because a psychotherapist create them. The healing is possible only in case the person is ready for it. Without belief and commitment it’s impossible to reach the success. The main task of psychotherapist in the process of healing is to teach a patient create and control the life, to show how it’s done, determine previous mistakes, in order not to make them again, and help person get rid of the internal limitations. One-on-one therapy session usually consists of several components: discussion, analysis, diagnostics and application of corrective treatment approaches. How many sessions it is necessary to attend? Each person is individual, he comes to a psychotherapist with a certain task. Someone applies for a professional help just in order to make some serious solution in his life. In such case even one session will be enough. If the person is in the doldrums, the healing process will take more time.

Mike Sergeev for Calgary counsellor Ken Fierheller