1. Psychological counselors have a great investment in learning, which can be said to require a lifetime of study. After graduating from college, I will also participate in professional study and training of various theories and technologies every year, every month or even every week, and I will also sort out the case materials I am consulting (if I am a foreign teacher, I will also translate them) and accept supervision. In addition, psychological counselors themselves need to be consulted, analyzed or called personal therapy/personal experience, because only when psychological counselors fully understand themselves and handle their own problems can they help visitors better and be safer and more responsible to them.
Therefore, the energy and economic cost of a mature and excellent consultant's training road is very large. In China, consultants (of course not all consultants) who pay attention to personal professional ability and literacy training spend about 3000- 10000 yuan a month on learning.
2. Psychological counselor is a profession and a job. Psychological counselors, like other practitioners, need to survive and earn labor income on the premise of paying professional services. In addition, counselors can take care of themselves before helping others. They need work income to live and increase their professional ability, so that there can be a positive cycle.
3. For counseling or treatment itself. Visitors are unwilling to spend money on counseling and want to "get something for nothing", which may be an unhealthy maladjustment in itself and need treatment or intervention. Charging for it, the other party can tolerate this reasonable effort, which is itself a treatment, rather than continuing to support this inadaptability without charge.
These are the three main reasons that come to mind at present. If the consultant is willing to provide free services, except for being conquered or supported by the relevant units, the rest are either inexperienced at first, or have other plans. In short, before they receive counseling, they need to know clearly why the other party is free, which is responsible for themselves. After all, there is no such thing as a free lunch. The above is my personal understanding for your reference and careful choice.
If the economic conditions are limited, it is recommended to find low-cost consulting services from regular units. These consultants may just start consulting and have little experience, but at least they have professional ethics. The most important thing is that they will be supervised. Therefore, when choosing consultants with internship or insufficient work experience 10 years, ask them if they have supervision. It is best to have personal experience.
Free consultation can hardly achieve the desired effect (1). The novice consultant wants to practice his hand.
(2) Senior consultants voluntarily take out some public welfare time.
(3) Drainage of institutions or platforms, with N times of free consultation as the slogan to attract remote consultation.
(1) Beginners seek advice for free just for practice. The main purpose is to accumulate experience, and the efficiency or effect of solving problems may not be satisfactory. Both sides are willing to help each other and are not responsible for each other.
(2) Of course, senior counselors can do counseling during public welfare hours, but most psychological counseling can't solve the problem once, once for free and twice for free. Is this consultant free to show visitors? If you stop consulting because you are unwilling to pay, the problem of visitors will naturally not be solved.
(3) Organize free consultation and drainage. There are too many things and holes in it. I'll talk more about it here. In fact, the reason is the same. A person who really needs counseling will consult at least 3-4 times, and some even take years. If it is stopped because of the cost, it is still the tourists themselves who are troubled.
Professional psychological counseling is necessary to "set up" and "cost". In the current environment, except for psychiatrists or psychological counselors in hospitals (who are paid in hospitals), most counselors rely on consulting income to maintain. "Free consultation" is really an unbearable moral expectation.
If you want to solve psychological problems, you can consider the following points: It is good for you to choose psychological counseling, and it is a big misunderstanding to find free counseling. At this rate, you may encounter a pit! Let me talk about my study and work experience in psychological counseling and many things I have encountered!
Why do you need free? A colleague of the counselor said: As a counselor, have you ever encountered such a situation: you received several calls to make an appointment for psychological counseling, but instead of making an appointment for counseling, you helped others?
When asked if the other person has the willingness to consult, the answer is "no". Almost all the people who call in suggested that our psychological counselors should play the role of good friends, take the initiative to contact the people who need consultation, and don't tell each other who they are, but guide them in an indirect way.
Finally, I asked, can the consultation fee guarantee the effect? Can it be solved at once? Of course, many times you hang up as soon as you hear the charge, or ask for free, saying that there are many free consultations. Why do you charge? Why can't you save lives? You have little strength to help others, you just want to make money, you have no sympathy, and your love is fake. Yes, why do counselors charge?
Each of these questions can correspond to the long-standing "psychological problems" of the questioner himself. Can we talk about them for free first?
Can you guarantee it will work?
What if it doesn't work?
How many times can I do it?
Can you give me a discount?
You just tell me what to do.
What can I do to change him as soon as possible?
Is it confidential? How can I trust you?
After hearing so much from you, I will think about it. [Cover your face]
Psychological counselors answer these questions almost every day. [Coffee] Perhaps the questioner doesn't know that every question can correspond to the long-standing "psychological problem" of the questioner himself.
If she is lucky enough to be able to consult, then these are important materials collected by psychological consultation, which can give her feedback and help him!
However, most people will not consult again. According to my experience, there are the following possibilities:
I also thank every visitor and their relatives for their trust and coming to consult!
Empathy, anti-communism, letting it develop and grow from it, understanding visitors with their own anti-communism, and then promoting their self-awareness are important links in psychotherapy.
Since psychological counseling is a professional job, there are clinical psychology majors in universities from undergraduate to doctoral, both at home and abroad, which shows that psychological counseling is effective!
However, there is a gap in this respect in China. The development of psychological counseling depends on the support and efforts of psychologists, counselors, visitors and their families, so as to develop and benefit more people!
Now many people want to consult, which is a good thing. Even if they don't consult, the psychological counselor sincerely tells the actual situation, which is also a kind of popular science to reduce misunderstanding! Or what?
Because there are still many misunderstandings in our country, psychological counseling is to chat with others. Psychological counseling requires a result at a time, and asks the method as soon as it comes up. Can it be free? I don't understand counseling!
For example, my parents and son have been depressed for three or four years and asked me why it is so difficult to get better. Is there a charge again? Why is the free effect not good? It seems that the symptoms are in her problem.