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Therapy is about communing and relaxing
The most common expectation among people is that the therapist will console and relax you. Most people expect to leave the therapy room feeling unnerved. However, in reality this is not the case. Therapy is a personal journey in which you gain awareness of your problems and yourself, and learn to control your emotions by controlling your thoughts. Improving the person's mental state is one of the main goals of therapy, but this is never achieved by just consoling and supporting the person. The client can relax with the information, support and some relaxation techniques he receives from the therapist throughout many sessions, but this is a side goal of the therapy and covers a small part of the therapy process.
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My childhood in therapy to be analyzed
The importance of childhood experiences in personality formation is indisputable. Therefore, your therapist may want to learn about your childhood. However, not every therapist analyzes your childhood. There are different therapy techniques. In some of these techniques, early childhood experiences are emphasized and analyzed in detail, while in others, problem-solving techniques are used, and as the therapist deems necessary, he brings up only childhood memories that may be related to the current problem and establishes a connection with the events the client is experiencing today.
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My therapist will tell me what to do and give advice
In psychotherapy, the person is not directly guided except for behavioral tasks (for example, starting sports, walking, etc.). The therapist should not interfere with the client's life. The choice should always be the client's own. However, the therapist can eliminate the client's confusion by making the nature of the alternatives, their advantages and disadvantages, and their possible consequences evident.
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If I tell you about this, my therapist's trust in me will decrease
Your therapist is obliged to understand you and help you, he will never judge you. This does not mean that your therapist agrees or approves of everything. For example, someone When you plan to give up, your therapist will disapprove of you and try to understand why you feel that way and why you are planning to do that. He treats everything you say to him only as clues that he can use to understand you. Beyond that, it doesn't matter whether your therapist personally approves of you or not. The important thing is whether your own ideas are hindering you again. Moreover, the therapist is trained not to blame, judge or label, and when he starts each session, he leaves his own value judgments at the door.
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My therapist must be smarter than me to understand me.
What really matters during the treatment process is not whether your therapist is smarter than you, but his level of knowledge and skill about psychological disorders and their treatments. It can be said that the intelligence level of a person who receives therapy training in addition to basic psychology or psychiatry training is already good. Moreover, intelligence does not mean knowing everything. You may know a lot about a subject that your therapist does not know at all. This is not a sign of your therapist's incompetence in therapy.
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My therapist must be older than me
Aging Because it is associated with the experience, many clients imagine seeing someone who is middle age or older when entering the therapy room. The older and more experienced the therapist is, the better he will understand the client's problems and help him. This assumption is true to some extent. Having had the same experience makes it easier to empathize, but it is not necessary to empathize. Psychiatrists and psychologists receive detailed training about all the developmental stages that a person goes through during their training. During these training processes, empathy skills also develop. For example, in order to understand a client who is 10 years older than himself, a young therapist can easily develop an empathic understanding of what the client might feel and how he would tend to act in the environment and conditions in which he lives. In addition, in order to understand what a person is going through, it is not necessary to have had the same experience. If this were the case, the therapist who gave supportive psychotherapy to schizophrenic patients would also have a history of psychotic episodes. It was expected.
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My therapist should solve my problems
In therapy, you learn to be your own therapist. One of the main goals of therapy is to provide the client with the personal skills necessary to solve the problem he is experiencing. This is one of the ways your therapist can liberate you. If you do not develop your problem-solving skills during therapy, you will be dependent on your therapist to overcome the difficulties in your life.
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Those who have problems or psychological disorders go to therapy
“Thank God I'm in a good state of mind, I don't need therapy”, “It's not me, it's you, go to therapy!”, “Am I crazy, should I go to a psychologist?”.. Unfortunately, mental health services are not yet sufficiently developed. We often hear that it is not understood in our society. However, a person can also consult a therapist to get to know himself, analyze his personality, and identify aspects that he can improve. Successful managers who lack motivation, parents who want to know how to explain their divorce to their children, and healthy individuals who do not have any psychological illnesses also receive therapy. In fact, people who are "not in their right mind", that is, people who are disconnected from reality, are in a psychotic phase, or have mental retardation, cannot receive therapy. In other words, mental stability is a prerequisite for receiving therapy. In addition to those with a defined psychological disorder, any sane person who cannot solve a problem despite all their efforts and support and who experiences any internal conflict or contradiction can go to therapy. Beyond this, the person who comes to therapy is not crazy or problematic, on the contrary, he is brave and has made his choice for change.
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Can the treatment be done through conversation?
The two people in the therapy room, the therapist and the client, are not people who came together randomly. It is the union of two people who are together for a specific purpose, one of whom has a problem that he cannot solve, is in a distressed mood, and the other is an expert in healing with psychological methods. The main tool used in therapy is conversation, but this is not ordinary conversation. Every question asked, every answer received, every facial expression and gesture observed is systematically recorded. It is a speech that is addressed as. Moreover, there are different techniques used in therapy other than speaking, such as relaxation, suggestion, breathing exercises and imagination studies.
- Psychiatrists prescribe medication, psychologists perform therapy
Psychiatrists, They are medical doctors who specialize in psychiatry by taking the TUS (medical specialty exam) after six years of medical education. Only psychiatrists have the authority to prescribe medication and administer medication for the treatment of psychological problems. However, psychiatrists do not treat psychological problems with medication alone. During their education, they also have the authority to practice psychotherapy by receiving psychotherapy training from the clinic where they are trained and from outside.
Psychologists, on the other hand, graduate from the 4-year psychology department of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. They do not receive psychotherapy training in this process. In order for a psychologist to see clients and provide therapy, they must receive long-term therapy training in addition to their psychology education or have a master's degree in clinical psychology.
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