The problems that people experience within themselves, communication and relationship problems, and mental illnesses create the need for psychotherapy. In addition, a negative view of psychiatric drugs and lack of information may lead people suffering from illness to seek a different treatment. This increased need for treatment and interest in treatment brings with it many wrong practices.
Although there is a lot to be said about psychotherapy, in its simplest definition it is talking therapy. The person who performs psychotherapy is called a psychotherapist. To become a psychotherapist, it is necessary to go through a very difficult and long training process. Performing psychotherapy by people who have not received this training and have not gone through the psychotherapy process themselves may harm the client and cause wounds that are difficult to repair. Inadequate supervision and legal gaps cause incompetent and uncertain people to work in this field.
Treatment methods that give advice to people and are not based on any theory are not psychotherapy. For this reason, the qualifications of the person who becomes a psychotherapist and the kind of training process he/she has gone through are very important. The scientific reality of the methods applied should be questioned.
Psychotherapy is a treatment that takes time and requires effort. The aim of psychotherapy is to increase the insight, awareness, self-confidence, ability to cope with difficulties and develop social skills of the client who enters the therapy process. The aim is to transfer what is learned in the therapy relationship to real life. Since it is long and laborious, it has a deterrent aspect, but psychotherapy is truly the greatest investment a person can make in himself, and therefore in his family, work, social environment and career.
We should be careful about people who abuse people's emotions, give advice and say that their problems will be solved with hypnosis, as we often hear. There is a serious need to increase legal controls and determine boundaries in order to solve the confusion and pollution of psychotherapy and psychotherapists.
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