What is the relationship between psychiatry and psychotherapy?
Psychiatrists are medical doctors that are trained in psychiatry, which relates to the treatment of mental disorders with psychotropic medication. Psychiatrists sometimes get [...]
After termination, if a therapist received a letter from a client detailing how the therapist has failed them, would the therapist attempt to respond or reach out to the client?
That depends on the therapist and all the other variables (how things ended, length of treatment, etc.). The notion that the therapist “failed” [...]
As a therapist, do you ever think you have failed a patient?
Failing suggests an either/or conclusion, like an exam. Life doesn’t work that way, except when it comes to life and death. That said, [...]
As a therapist in training, how do you start having therapy yourself if you don’t have any major issues that require treatment?
That’s an excellent question. One of the biggest misnomers about therapy is that you need a “major issue” to benefit from it. Therapy [...]