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How to Find the Right Therapist
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Written by Carla Paula Paulan
Updated over a week ago

To get the right help you need, you may refer to the information below in picking the right therapist for you.

What is a Therapist?

  • Therapists is a broad umbrella term for professionals who are trained—and often licensed—to provide a variety of treatments and rehabilitation for people, basically counseling. Therapists provide mental health diagnoses and are the people who develop a treatment plans for clients.

What is a Psychologist?

  • They are professionals with psychology degrees. They practice psychology and study mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes, and behavior. Their work often involves the experimentation, observation, and interpretation of how individuals relate to each other and to their environments.

What is a Coach?

  • They are the type of wellness professional who helps people make progress in their lives in order to attain greater fulfillment. They work with clients to identify their goals, pain points, and undesired behaviors blocking their progression, and guide the clients to create an action plan to achieve desired results. Life coaches are not mental healthcare professionals unless they completed education in counselling, psychology, or social work and are trained in counseling. Coaches may work on various areas of your lives including career and relationships.

What is a Therapist-in-Training?

  • They are mostly current students from our partner schools pursuing their master's or diplomas in psychology, counseling or social work.

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