How Is A Psychologist Useful?

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

Articles in the style of "N pieces of something you definitely need to know about" are always popular, so, following the brand's spirit, I'll start with 4 simple points about the real benefits of a psychologist / psychotherapist.

1. He knows what's going on

By virtue of our professional training, we, psychologists, are people who have been taught to understand the various and sometimes complex processes that happen to us and to other people, inside the human psyche. In fact, it is our job to understand what is wrong with the person, what exactly he came with. I know that many do not dare to turn to a psychologist precisely because they cannot even formulate for themselves what is “wrong” with them, what kind of feelings, feelings they “interfere” with, or vice versa, inspire for a short moment, and then disappear as completely as they arose? What is generally hidden there, inside, where in all this "I", where does it all move, what will happen? And the most important question is - what can I do with all this?

So, a psychologist or a psychotherapist is just that person who can and in some way should help with the identification of the current internal process and its formulation, as it is now commonly called "words through the mouth." There will be a couple of sub-points about what this does:

- reduces anxiety … Dealing with something "unnamed", incomprehensible, vague is much more difficult than with a designated, clearly delineated and generally understandable, as well as, as a rule, not unique process.

- makes it possible to navigate and manage … The recognized process is a process accessible to consciousness, reason, visible, directly observable. And sometimes - this is the only thing that needs to be done at all, and sometimes (and even in most cases) visibility takes the process out of the category "this suddenly happens to me (besides me)" and translates into the category "this is my process / my feelings and I can control it."

- gives perspective … It becomes much clearer what will happen next, what needs to be done and can be done if there is such a desire, but more on this in the next paragraph.

2. He may suggest options

Another professional task of a psychologist is to analyze the client's situation from different angles, at different levels and from several points of view. As a rule, there is a way out, but often a person "gets stuck" in old scenarios or habitual bleak thoughts, and in this case, even just to see the presence of new, different options for action becomes a significant relief. A psychotherapist can help to prescribe a plan of what exactly to do in a disturbing situation, to offer a more or less flexible scheme of interaction with the current process, to provide that very complete systemic analysis of what is already happening and what is likely to happen, and tell how best. those. the safest and most comfortable way for a particular person is now worth acting.

3. Will be there to go through all this

The choice of what to do and what not to do with his life is always left to the client. Just in case, psychologists are not the people who give advice or "command" the lives of others (and this is one of the main points that distinguish an adequate professional from a charlatan who calls himself a "psychologist" - respect for someone else's life, someone else's will and someone else's decision) … Our profession does not provide for any "doing good" and "doing good".

I also adhere to the belief that the client's unconscious knows better what he needs for happiness, and my task as a psychotherapist is the role of a guide, a partner, with all respect leading a person to his own goal. Again, due to my training and experience, I know the nuances of the path, those possible obstacles that may lie in wait, those "subtle" places where more support or more caution may be needed. I also usually help to find those bonuses that necessarily appear in the process of work - it can be difficult to notice them and assign them to clients on their own due to the lack of the skill to notice the good in life (and within oneself).

4. Will complete on time

Another important point is that psychotherapy is finite, and this is also the duty of a competent specialist - to make sure that a person leaves him when he is ready, with a resource, with new knowledge - and with a feeling of completeness of the process begun and passed jointly. The very feeling of "I did it!" is also a great help, a high-quality support for later life, especially when it comes to such a difficult and deep matter as psychotherapy.