The Scope of Speech

We use speech inter culturally.  We communicate inter personally.  We turn to our telephones and talk with machines that are able to recognize speech and give answers.  For some, this can be rather tedious and annoying especially if a person is seeking an immediate answer to a pressing problem.  We want to speak to a person.  But there is no one on the line.  Talking machines are the face of many businesses today.

Intercultural speakers are always intriguing.  Some have different accents which are difficult to understand unless a person is from a particular country or region.  Some insensitive individuals laugh about this, while others become irritated or exercise patience.  It is always a challenge to watch a foreign film where the speakers are supposed to be English speakers and much of it we do not understand because of the accent.

There are remarkable differences between an Indian, Nigerian, Spanish, Italian, and British speakers of English.  Many in the West considers the Queen’s English as being the perfect English.  Some cockney speakers in England may not be understandable in the West.  It is however noteworthy that broadcasts from the BBC are well received in the United States.  It leaves a person to conclude that generally the well educated have no problems communicating among themselves.  They tend to set the standard for us to follow.

Speech Limitations

To many being behind a microphone on the radio is one thing, but in face-to-face conversation is another.  Here we learn that speech communication is also reinforced by non verbal cues.  Speech and non verbal communication go hand in hand.  A person may be saying one thing but his body language is saying something else.  Some people believe that body language does not lie.  Others may fake sincerity by being emotional.  Their voice may crack and  they may even cry.  An experienced observer may look for these clues to determine their sincerity. 

There are those that argue that words cannot describe the way they truly feel.  This is also true.  A person may be shouting and screaming.  What does this mean?  Is it because that person is in pain?  Is it because that individual is experiencing a flight of ecstasy?  One could never tell unless we know for sure under which conditions these sounds are occurring.       

Speech in Therapy

A person may be able to benefit through speech via a trained therapist.  While in therapy such a patient may be able to recall painful and not so painful events in his life.  These are analyzed, discussed, and an understanding of the issues that have been troubling him are explored.  The therapist and patient are able to tap into the root causes of his problems and the patient eventually learns to deal with them.

These revelations may take weeks, months, or years.  At first, this patient may resist opening up to the therapist for he considers much of the information that has been eating away at him private.  Nevertheless, as they proceed, there are moments when both the therapist and the patient encounter glimmers of hope.  The patient eventually comes to trust his therapist.

Trust

Regardless how great a speaker a person may be, if there is no trust between the speaker and his audience all is for nought.  In most situations, like the therapist and the patient, this trust may build gradually.  Some prominent people may be fortunate for they have developed a reputation that precedes them.  These are generally film stars, authority figures, and opinion leaders in the society.  In politics some may argue that they only trust democrats while others say that republicans are the real deal and so it goes.

Having trust in the leaders of the country is essential.  Much of it comes from the things that they say.  That is why in order to make us believe in their positions many politicians appeal to fundamental identifiers like patriotism, the flag, and love of country.  Those are core things with which many citizens identify.  They may have nothing to do with policy statements which can be controversial and some go so far as to drive fear in our hearts to win our trust.

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Speech is a common denominator on which we all rely.  It takes different forms and are spoken in many languages 

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around the world, but regardless where it is spoken, it serves as our guiding light.  Without it society would be a completely different place.

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It’s that time of year again. The one time during the year when your actually allowed to sit back and look at the past without people telling you to move on; but it’s the perfect time to find a way to move on. Talking about things that have happened in our past and finding our “thankful” can be very therapeutic. So this year for the holiday I’d like to try and help you find your “thankful”.

So how do we work through things that our hearts don’t really want to look at? The first thing to do is just dive in. Find a place where your comfortable allowing yourself to let go. If it’s alone that’s fine, but sometimes it’s nice to have someone hold your hand, hug you or just give you a shoulder. The important thing is to allow all that rush of emotion to pour out. Talk out loud, yell, scream, cry; do what you need to do to get all those emotions to the surface and let them flow. It can be very cleansing to vent all that you’ve been holding in. You’ll be amazed at the amount of weight that you’ve been carrying due to the lack of release.

After you’ve vented I want you to find one good reason for the loss. I know that when you lose people or things it can be hard to find a good reason why, but we need to. Like the loss of my dad. It was really hard to take. I felt abandoned once again, but he had been sick for 7 years and held out as long as he could. It was time. Plus now, I can close my eyes and he is with me anytime I need him. He is always watching out for me even though I am far from home. So it’s good that he went to heaven cause now I get to be with him all the time. If he hadn’t died then I would miss him more because I couldn’t go home and see him. When God closes a door he opens a window; it’s that kind of concept that we need to look at during the holiday to find out thankful. Once you find your bread crumb of thankful, I want you to keep repeating it to yourself. You will be amazed at what happens. Once you find that one good thing, all the sudden you will start seeing more good things in your holiday.

If all else fails and this isn’t working for you I want you to email me because this holiday my “thankful” is readers like you who spend the time to seek me out. The people who read my work, the people who develop friendships with me, the people who keep me going. I want you to know I’m right here. I personally respond to each email, message and friends request. I don’t have automated systems that shoot you a “I’ll get back with you” message. So be a part of my “Thankful” holiday, I’m looking forward to spending it with you. You can email me at hmweimar@yahoo.com or find me on twitter, facebook, myspace and google plus. You can also join me at Triond.com, share,create and learn. I am thankful for you!

You will also develop your intelligence and use your entire brain power. Right now you are using only a small portion of your brain on the behalf of your conscience. The biggest part of your brain belongs to your primitive side.

All mental disorders are caused by the anti-conscience, the wild side of the human brain. We have inherited this absurd content into the biggest part of our brain. We have to get rid of this terrible content by transforming it into conscious and human content through dream therapy.

I discovered this truth after continuing Carl Jung’s research, and after fighting against schizophrenia, and winning the battle. My victory is based on my obedience to the unconscious guidance. This means that you can win this battle too. You will surely find sound mental health if you follow the unconscious guidance, no matter if you are merely depressed, or if you have to face a severe mental illness.

Dream therapy is a guaranteed and safe method of psychotherapy because it is based on the unconscious wisdom and sanctity. The unconscious wisdom proves God’s existence, and God’s sanctity.

There is a religious side in this truth. When you pass through dream therapy, you also pass through a process of spiritual purification. You acquire mental health and spiritual health at the same time.

I simplified Carl Jung’s method of dream interpretation for you, after two decades of studies and cures into practice. Therefore, dream translation according to the scientific method became simple, clear, and fast.

When you translate the meaning of your dreams according to the right method, you discover that all dream images contain very important messages, which give you real information about your mental stability and the world around you. My simplification is based on:

1- Identifying the most important dream symbols in a dream

a. You don’t need to be an expert on dream translation in order to understand the basic meaning of a dream. You simply have to study for a while the meaning of the most important dream symbols in order to understand the essential.

b. You don’t need to translate all the details of a dream in order to understand the most important dangers that are threatening your mental health.

Later you will be able to automatically translate all the details of all dreams, the same way you translate the meaning of the most important dream symbols. In the beginning your translation will be somehow limited, but it will already help you understand what to do in order to find the solutions you need. The basic dream symbols give you crucial information.

2- Understanding the dream logic

I teach you from the beginning that the basic meaning of all your dreams is always protective. The unconscious mind protects your human conscience from the attacks of your evil and absurd anti-conscience. Therefore:

a. You don’t waste your time supposing anything. You directly look for dangers when you translate the meaning of your dreams. You know that the unconscious mind is a serious doctor who is protecting your mental health.

b. You are able to easily follow the unconscious thoughts, and understand the unconscious messages. You know that these messages protect you from your evil and absurd side. You know that you are in danger. Therefore, you have a serious attitude, and you fight against the absurdity imposed by your wild side. You stop being a passive receptor, who doesn’t react against the anti-conscience’s attacks.

When you suffer from mental disturbances, this means that your anti-conscience is attacking your human conscience. The unconscious mind that produces your dreams gives you a clear vision of what is happening inside you.

You only have to study for a while the meaning of the most important dream symbols and the dream logic in order to learn the necessary. You don’t need anyone else’s help. The unconscious mind is the best psychiatrist and psychologist you could find.

If you have no time for studies, I can translate your dreams for you. Later you will find the time to study the dream language. After verifying its value into practice you will surely desire to learn the meaning of the most important dream symbols by heart.

Christina Sponias continued Carl Jung’s research into the human psyche, discovering the cure for all mental illnesses, and simplifying the scientific method of dream interpretation that teaches you how to accurately translate the meaning of your dreams, so that you can find health, wisdom and happiness.

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You probably haven’t heard of Abraham Maslow. He was a psychologist and a prominent founder of a branch of psychology: humanistic psychology. His study focuses on treating humans like, well, humans. Psychologists that came before him and Carl Rogers (another founder of humanistic psychology) treated their clients with a cold air and had an emotionless method of diagnosing and treating their patient’s problems. Maslow brought a face to psychology and focused on helping people emotionally and personally as well as clinically. Despite all this, he is really only famous for his theory that he, so very modestly, called “Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs”. In a nutshell, the theory states that human needs come in (you guessed it) a hierarchy. Starting with the most primitive and basic needs, one transcends through the hierarchy and eventually ends up fulfilled and “happy”.

Here’s the theory, courtesy of my good friend Wikipedia:

1. Physiological – breathing, food, water, sex (impersonally), sleep, homeostasis, and excretion.

2. Safety – security of: body, employment, resources, one’s family, property and health.

3. Love/Belonging – friendship, family, and sexual intimacy.

4. Esteem – self-esteem, confidence, achievement, respect of others and respect by others.

5. Self-actualization – morality, creativity, spontaneity, problem solving, lack of prejudice, and acceptance of facts.

Basically, what this means is that one cannot move on to step two without first satisfying the needs of step one, and step three cannot begin until step two is completed, and so on in this fashion. Very surprisingly, things that we think we do on a daily basis are in step five, like solving problems and being moral. However, when Maslow mentions things like problem solving, we must be careful not to look at it mundanely. He doesn’t mean that someone with a low self-esteem can’t solve a math problem or figure out how to manage their daily schedule, he means that they probably wouldn’t be able to understand complex and consequential problems. An example of this would be a teenage girl who is so enthralled with her boyfriend that she just doesn’t seem to have the sense to break up with him even when he cheats on her repeatedly and has no respect for her. It is a simple problem with a simple fix, but she cannot see the long term benefits that would outweigh the short term heartbreak of losing her love. Plato called this “virtue”, or the ability to see the long term consequences of one’s actions. He believed that it was a trait like openness or agreeableness; that some people are virtuous and some people just aren’t. I, as well as Maslow, think he was wrong.

So, if Maslow was right and humans can’t be moral, creative, or even accept facts until they have eaten and drunk, are safe, have stable relationships, and have confidence, then how can we function? How can we address things like morality or even think of moving forward as a society until every citizen of our country is provided for physically as well as emotionally? How can we expect our voters to make the right decisions and our children to be educated properly if their emotional needs are neglected? This is the answer to my aforementioned question in the first paragraph: we can’t. We can’t move forward until we address the importance of emotional stability for everyone. And that means everyone, not just the people who can afford health insurance. If we don’t, we are doomed to follow the same cycles that have been repeating throughout history. Considering that humans have had noticeable societies for about 10,000 years, shouldn’t we have realized that the color of someones skin doesn’t make them inferior or superior to others a bit sooner than half a century ago? Should we not have understood that women are not dumber than men because of the mere fact that they are female? I believe the lack of emotional treatment to be the cause. We’ve been stuck in the same cycles for thousands of years, and it’s about time for a change. Not a rhetorical Obama “change”, but a real one.

Thoreau said, “Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction – a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the Muse”. I struggle with this quote because, quite frankly, I am embarrassed to be a part of this society. I cannot turn on the TV for fear that I might glimpse the brightly colored advertisements and the whimsical sitcoms, so innocently engorging the public with farce and nonsense. I dare not listen to the news, the great liar that only tells us what we want to hear and what it thinks we should hear. America has yet to drive home a nail worth waking up for.

Let’s start talking about the real issues, not the “big issues”. I hope one day I can go to a political website and see Therapy or Human Resources listed on the debates, and not foolish things like whether gays are defiling marriage or not. Let’s stop throwing people in jail for doing drugs and start helping them. Let’s stop eating everything the media says and start taking it in with five, or better yet, twenty-five grains of salt. Let’s stop being the teenage girl that doesn’t see that she would be happier if she broke with her cheating boyfriend. Let’s stop the stigmatizing of therapy and make it acceptable and available for everyone. Let’s prove Plato wrong and show that we all have virtue by helping others as well as helping ourselves. Perhaps then we can actually grow and change as a society, and transcend above humanity’s less-than-proud past. It’s time for a change.

• Clarify your problems for yourself. Before approaching the topic along with your partner, you would like to be clear on what your problems are. Sex is difficult, and your feelings might have the maximum amount to try to to along with your own history like your dissatisfaction with technical delivery from your partner. Sit along with your thoughts for awhile. visit your friends or write feelings down. This method can assist you get clear before partaking during a sensitive topic.

• Get very accustomed to your body. make certain that you simply have done some thorough treasure searching (so to speak) so, once you build requests of your partner, you’ll do therefore specifically.

 think about the placement for your conversation. observing sexual dissatisfactions in bed could be a dangerous move, as a result of it should produce an association of negativity there. Instead, select a neutral, non-threatening place or activity (when you’re absolutely clothed) like taking a night walk or sitting on the beach.

• Timing is vital. Raising issues or concepts simply before you’re getting ready to knock boots or minutes before guests are arriving for dinner isn’t smart timing. Carve out a special time once you are uninterrupted so you’ll chat freely. do not bombard him when a troublesome day at work.

• Remind yourself that an honest, solid, trusting partner cares concerning you and your sexual satisfaction. this suggests that you simply will forsaking of fears and walk into the conversation with ease, knowing that this is often a chance to bring you 2 nearer along.

During sex

•  If you are nervous, mention why talking concerning it’s arduous. Be honest concerning how you’re feeling when the subject is raised, and why you think that you’re feeling that approach. be at liberty to laugh here!

 begin with a general question like, “What does one like concerning our sex life?” this can open up a free dialogue to speak concerning all of the wonderful things and segue naturally to the hurdles.

• Own your sexual desires instead of solid blame for what you are not obtaining. for instance, rather than saying, “You do not pay enough time down there,” say, “I notice that, to succeed in climax, i would like slower, steadier stimulation. it always takes to a small degree of your time on behalf of me to return.” This approach invitations him into the method instead of putting him on the defensive.

• Apprecite his openness to concentrate and learn. Encourage him to share any dissatisfaction he might have, too, so you’ll each grow.

After sex

 supply positive feedback frequently. Reward progress and do not hunt for perfection. Men, especially, have to be compelled to hear that their efforts are being noticed so they continue making an attempt.
 do not be back. Continue conversations within the bedroom and explore along by enjoying show-and-tell to show one another what brings you the foremost pleasure. When within the bedroom, concentrate solely on the positive.
    Keep an open dialogue concerning sex. when you have interaction in sex, discuss what was nice and what each of you’d wish to build even higher. Be kind and use the sandwich approach: a mild criticism sandwiched between 2 compliments.

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Maybe your partner comes too quick, you’ve got utterly lost interest, sex is painful or one in every of you cannot reach orgasm. Feigning nightly migraines to avoid his makes an attempt at a quickie, however, is creating it clear that the 2 of you’ve got gotten off of the great lovin’ track and wish facilitate to induce back on. It’s traditional for couples’ sex life to ebb and flow, however sex may be a natural a part of a relationship, and you deserve a satisfying sex life along with your partner.
To go or not go

The easiest thanks to decide if sex therapy is for you is to raise yourselves 3 questions: 1) Are you sad along with your sex life? 2) Is your sexual dissatisfaction inflicting issues in different areas of your relationship? and 3) have you ever exhausted different choices like reading books, magazine articles, etc? If your answers are yes, yes and yes, a visit to a love doc is so as.
What are you able to expect from a sex therapist?
Will we’ve got to induce naked?

Not yet. Your garments can keep on — a minimum of, whereas you’re in session. And there’s nothing to be nervous about; sex therapy extremely|is truly} really fun if you permit yourself to trust the method. Sex therapy is speak therapy, and your sex therapist will this all day long. no matter you tell her, she’s heard one thing twice as embarrassing. Plus, it’s her job to form you are feeling snug concerning the uncomfortable, therefore leaving behind of your nerves and obtain prepared for an excellent journey.
What precisely will we speak about?

During your 1st session, your therapist can consult with you concerning your considerations. Throughout the sessions, you uncover the roots of these problems and learn skills and techniques to boost your communication and intimacy in order that those problems are not any longer gift in your partnership.
Rumor has it that there is homework

Rumor has it properly — which is that the very fun half. Your sex therapist can provide assignments to place what you’re uncovering in your sessions to figure. (This is that the half once you can get naked.) Tasks might embody reading concerning sexual techniques, specializing in what you sense throughout sexual activities, implementing new techniques and additional. you may discuss the findings of your homework assignments throughout your sessions to assist you progress forward.
WE’re in… what next?
How to opt for a sex therapist

Seek a referral from your physician or inquire with the yank Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists or the yank Board of Sexology, each of that certify sex therapists for recommendations. most significantly, opt for somebody with whom you and your partner feel snug. you’ll be able to interview as several therapists as you would like via phone through mini consultations that last approximately twenty minutes. throughout these phone calls, raise questions on instructional and coaching background and ways — and take a look at to determine if his temperament meshes with yours. If all things line up, book a briefing. you do not commit beyond one appointment, therefore if you’re not feeling the correct energy, move onto following one.
How long will it take? what is going to it cost?

Depending on the problems that require to be unraveled and also the progress of the couple, sex therapy will last anywhere from many sessions to concerning 20; sessions generally last an hour. Fees usually run from $50 to $200 per hour.

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In the U.S., grievous sexual therapy with alternative sexual partners

Sexual therapy in practice become more common in the U.S. and especially in California where they became very popular practitioner, sexual therapists or “alternative sexual partners.” They raise self-esteem for women, teaching them to communicate with your body, achieving orgasms, and the art of lovemaking. For some psychologists, it is a practice highly controversial because it threatens to conflict of emotions.

Spare sexual partner is working with a client on building communication skills, self confidence, teaches them to feel comfortable in their physical and emotional intimacy. In practice, it can go just about eye contact or touch, but of course about sex.

“More and more women today claim to have inherited the right to orgasm, have a healthy relationship and be sexually satisfied,” said one of the alternative sexual partners Shai Rotem in Los Angeles.

In fourteen years of experience has helped many women with vaginismem – painful sexual intercourse in the vagina – virginity woman in her forties, and removed the fear of sex after a serious trauma.

“In recent years, greatly increasing women who seek out alternative sexual partners. Sex therapists do not seek to please their partners. They want to improve their own lives, “says Vena Blanchard, president of the International Association of Professional substitutes

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First of all, let’s clarify that for this text we will use the combined term psychotherapist, even though this is not a licensed title. This means that anyone could call himself psychotherapist, but it is not a title protected by law. A psychotherapist (kvalificeret psykoterapeut københavn in Danish) may be a psychologist, psychiatrist, social worker or counselor, and it is exactly for this purpose that we will use this particular term.  To give you a short briefing of terms – psychologists deal with the human mind from the aspect of psychology, and often need to have doctoral degrees in order to practice. Psychiatrists are medical doctors who are well aware of the way the human brain functions, have had a little less training in theoretical psychology, but can prescribe medication. Social workers and counselors have master’s degrees in psychology, and can practice only after several years of supervised training, but are often not your best choice in case of more severe individual disorders. If you have interpersonal problems, however, counselors and social workers are the better choice.

Moving on to the types of therapies there are, there are some main schools that you need to know about. First and foremost, a term you’re likely to have heard , is psychoanalysis.   It is one of the most well developed and earliest ideas in the field of psychology, and bases itself on the idea that most of the problems a person experiences now have roots in their past and childhood. Psychoanalysis looks for reasons, and can be very slow compared to other types of therapy, but has proven to give results for even the most unique problems.

Cognitive-behavioral therapy is the other most popular type of therapy, which in turn doesn’t explore the past more than necessary, but focuses on gradually improving the patient’s condition by making him face the problem on “small bites”.  It’s a rather faster approach, and it is very effective for phobias and anxiety problems, as well as other things. However,  it is most recommended only if you know exactly what the problem is.

Humanistic existential therapies are also commonplace, with the main interest placed in your own recognition of yourself. The key topic here is understanding yourself in order to be able to improve, seeing yourself as worthy and satisfied. This therapeutic approach is also very convenient in certain cases, but seems to be rather less popular than its other alternatives.

     Diana Reiss at Osbourne Laboratory of Marine Sciences back in 2000 peformed an interesting test on dolphins.  She made markings on them that could only be seen in the reflection of a mirror in an effort to find out to what extent dolphins recognized their reflections as themselves.  Knowing they had been marked and those markings could only be seen in the reflection, they swam intently to the mirrors to see them.  Kenneally writes: “In fact, Reiss pointed out, the test didn’t just expose the capacity for self-awareness: it also demonstrated that the dolphins were motivated to view themselves.”

     In another instance of animal cognition, a parrot by the name of Alex was taught words, and able to use them to identify colors and amounts.  He “is the most famous resident of Pepperberg’s lab at Brandeis University,” and what is particularly impressive about this thirty year-old parrot is his ability to identify an absence of value.  The concept of nothing, zero, is seen as something sophisticated, and, because of that usually uniquely human.  If asked to identify the color of a set of blocks that has not been displayed to him, he’ll say “None.”

     Now, this kind of thing is probably not shocking to pet-owners.  In 11th or 12th grade I had a physics teacher who believed that dogs had no real personality.  “Their appearance of personality is an adaptation.  It gets us to take care of them.”  I wasn’t a dog-lover at the time and happily reported this information to my then girlfriend who had a dog I found particularly annoying.

     Since, however, it has become clear to me that animals do think.  They work things out.  My therapist was talking to me about his dog.  While being walked, one of its legs became tangled in its leash.  He knelt down and said, “Lift up your paw.”  The dog then… wait for it… lifted up its paw. 

     So, as it turns out, there is new research that supports this idea:  We are just not as special as we have seen ourselves to be for thousands of years.  I mean, you can’t blame us really.  It has been ions since there were any other hominids on the planet, and when looking at other animals– especially after the agricultural revolution began– the distinctions abound.  Add to that a religion that suggests we were created to rule the Earth, and those distinctions become dogma.

     The intersection lies here: We are animals with advanced abilites of cogitation.  Those abilities evolved, created a utility for language, and then became shaped and enhanced by those the words we began to use.  Research suggests that once we have named a phenomenon, we become much more adept in our dealings with that phenomenon.  Lera Boroditsky, a psychology professor at Stanford says, “I’ve actually found that the ability to mentally rotate objects seems to be affected by whether we have a name for the object being rotated.  Language also changes how we remember colors and even actually see colors.”

     But, once we have categorized with a word, when utilizing that word we tend to visualize the category and not the specific shades or contours of the thing we are describing.  When people are forced to write their descriptions down of suspected criminals, they do worse at picking those faces out of line-ups than the people who are using visual recall alone. 

     The point?  Words are awesome.  They create our world virtually, and allow us to interact with abstractions that enable us to continue abstracting to reach ever broader and refined generalization.  The draw-back here are obvious.  Why do most animals not have mental break-downs?  Because they are not married to any language-defined realities, and therefore do not become trapped by categorical imprecision.  So, before you go reach in to your word box to describe something, think, “Do I really need to turn this into an abstraction?  Will that help or hurt?”  I’m thinking it depends on how you feel about the specifics.

First of all , make sure that you and your therapist go along.  It’s not necessary to try to asses whether the person is one type or another, just trust your first impression – if your candidate for a therapist seems kind , then you just might want to trust your personal issues with them. If not – go to the next. But in no circumstances should you entrust your mental health to a person who clearly exhibits a negative attitude towards you. In some therapies, getting a friendly psychotherapist is crucial, in some it’s not that necessary, but it has a positive effect.

After that ,you might want to check the licenses of your psychotherapist (or godt psykoterapeut københavn as we say in Denmark) – make sure he’s legally allowed to practice his profession. Many of the therapists choose to display their certificates in showcases or in frames on the walls of their offices, but if you can’t see it right away, just ask. You’re entitled to such a right as a patient.

With attitude and license considered, you might want to ask for the particular type of psychotherapy that he uses. If you’re familiar with the different types of therapies, you can ask right away, but if not , you can just ask how he or she has handled patients with problems similar to yours in the past. That will greatly help you understand how he practices and whether he or she will be of use to you in your therapeutic sessions.

Having most of the things about professionalism covered, at the end there comes the need to discuss the pricing policy of your psychotherapist and what his fees are. Some psychotherapists have a sliding-scale pricing policy – this means that your fees will be calculated based on your income, so this provides you with more accessible therapeutic care if you don’t have that much money, but also makes it more expensive if you’re reasonably wealthy.  Whether a sliding-scale policy is more convenient for you or not depends on your income, but still, make sure to ask that question in order to know how you will be taxed. Also , ask if your therapist accepts insurance – most companies nowadays insure their employees with policies that cover mental health and therapy, so if this is an option for you , you should certainly avail from it instead of paying out of pocket for your mental health services.