From the author: I found such a wonderful thing from I. Bulyubash. Beautiful in every way, except for some nuances (I will outline them in the text). I think it is worth reading for anyone who is going to see a psychologist or doubts whether the chosen specialist is right for him. If you follow it, you can avoid all sorts of charlatans from “psychology”, incompetent or simply kind, but misguided people posing as psychologists (psychotherapists). In order to choose a good psychotherapist (it does not matter significantly who he is - a doctor or a psychologist - you need learn a few rules and follow the algorithm below at the first meeting: Rules. When you DO NOT see a psychotherapist: 1. If you need pills, then psychotherapy is 99% not pills. 2. If you are expecting a magical effect. from one consultation, or you want to talk about your obnoxious loved ones, and not about yourself, then you should go to a psychic (sorcerer, grandmother, witch)3. If you seriously think that during the consultation the psychotherapist will say something new and give you smart advice, and you implement it, and everything will be fine, then you should see a defectologist)))4. If you expect a psychotherapist to tell you everything about you (blah blah blah blah), then you should see a fortune teller.5. If you think that you are much smarter than other people and all sorts of psychotherapists who don’t know or know how to do anything, then stay at home and prove it to your loved ones. You go to a psychotherapist when the first five points are not about you. You want to understand yourself, but with the help of another person, because you either don’t understand yourself, or you understand, but understanding is of no use, but you still want to live well. So, the first meeting with a psychotherapist, or Protection from fool.- Hello! - Hello! - Are you a psychotherapist? - Yes. - Please tell me what kind of education you have? business", clinical psychologist, consulting psychologist (in our Kemerovo universities they have just begun to train clinical psychologists, but they do not train psychologists-consultants, and this specialty, therefore, is rarely listed in the diploma, but it is necessary to clarify about post-graduate training. Post-graduate training should be in fields of psychology or psychotherapy - postgraduate study in psychology, long-term training program for training psychotherapists - the first is not necessary, the second is mandatory. Another point is that in postgraduate training programs in psychotherapy, in some organizations, you can study on the basis of higher pedagogical education, as well as with a specialty. social work". But here it is more complicated, and the level of qualification of such a consultant depends on the specialization, specific university, faculty, etc.). In my opinion, it is also IMPORTANT: the specialist must have a diploma of higher education in the field of psychology (and not retraining or advanced training, these are different things). At least in our region:) If your diploma says educational psychologist, then you need to pay special attention to postgraduate training. (In my opinion, postgraduate training is always worth paying attention to, because universities mainly focus on academic preparation ).In any case, you ask - What is your specialization? In line with what direction of psychotherapy do you work? Attention!!! If after this they tell you - 1st option - (solid) Eclectic psychotherapy. I have gone through many trainings and many directions (in secret, such a direction does not exist in nature, this is how half-educated people answer) (Another option: integrative psychotherapy. There is no such therapy either. As soon as it is invented, there will be no schools and directions in psychotherapy, there will simply be a single psychotherapy as a system of knowledge and assistance to a person. But this does not exist yet, and most of all this idea is utopian - existing schools have different worldviews and philosophies, sometimes based on.