The recent increase in psychology-themed TV series has created confusion for people who want to get support. The fact that the TV series are based on real stories, even if they are anonymous, endangers the privacy of the individual and becomes a source of fear for people who want to receive therapy.
Psychotherapy is a field framed by highly ethical rules, where privacy is taken into consideration. However, as in every profession, there are definitely experts who ignore ethical principles.
As a client, it is your greatest right to be sure that your privacy is protected.
Session rooms are specially designed rooms. In these rooms, sound insulation or sound-dispersing music systems are generally used. Everything you talk about has to remain solely between you and your therapist. Your therapist can only inform the competent authorities if there is a possibility of harming yourself or others, and in this case he must inform you. If he is taking notes, he must keep these notes in an area where no one can access them.
If your therapist is doing an academic study and says that your process will contribute to the scientific field, he must get your permission. If you allow it, it can contribute to science in a way that does not reveal your identity.
It is your fundamental right to question the expertise of the person you go to for psychotherapy. Unfortunately, in our country, many "fake psychologists", or people who are not authorized to do psychotherapy, operate in this field.
Who is a Psychologist?
Domestic psychology accepted by YÖK Individuals who graduate with a bachelor's degree from overseas psychology undergraduate programs whose equivalence with undergraduate programs are accepted by YÖK have the right to use the title of psychologist. Psychologists examine the individual and social attitudes, behavior, thinking and emotional states of the individual; They are professionals who are based on scientific definitions and explanations of behavior and mental processes.
Who is a Clinical Psychologist?
After graduating from the Psychology department of the relevant university, you can complete your master's degree in the field of psychology. It is the title given to individuals who have completed their studies in Clinical Psychology. Clinical psychologists are people who are qualified to perform psychotherapy.
What is Psychotherapy? / Why Go to Therapy?
Psychotherapy aims to give you insight into the difficulties or troubles you are experiencing, to increase your motivation to bring about changes in your thoughts and behaviors, and to help you find appropriate ways to make these changes.
From the moment we are conceived, we have to wear "someone else's clothes" every day, every hour. Our mother's burdens/clothes, our father's burdens/clothes, the burdens/clothes of other individuals around us, social burdens/clothes... Taking things from others so much puts things that do not belong to us on us. Many of us are not even aware of these clothes. Not being aware and not knowing the reason why we make our choices causes us to engage in behaviors that challenge us in daily life, to difficult emotional states, and to mental and physical diseases. While we only have one life, we spend it in clothes that do not belong to us. Sometimes our body says enough is enough. It causes panic attacks, acne, eczema, and exhausts us with pain whose cause cannot be found. While the body is so aware, how come we cannot live a life of our own? Or do we not make an effort for this?
Therapy allows you to remove clothes that do not belong to you. It allows you to first visit all the rooms of a shaking building, meet the people inside, explore it, and then demolish that building. A new structure of your choice is erected in place of a demolished building. Therapy is a process in which you remove clothes that do not belong to you, discover your skin, and heal your body and soul. Therapy is not a bed of roses, it is the construction of a new identity.
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