Because psychological counseling needs continuous learning. Self-improvement. I need counseling myself. (supervision. )
Many people don't understand the psychological counseling service fee. If you charge 200-500 every 50 minutes, it's not too high, because it looks like 50 minutes of service.
Actually, sometimes it takes 2-3 hours. Because preparation is needed before consultation.
Paper, pen, network, data collection, consultation agreement, consultation evaluation preparation, etc.
Write a consultation record after the consultation.
If the helper commits suicide or is in danger of hurting others, he should also deal with the crisis and call the police.
And the counselor looks glamorous, but it's actually someone else's trash can.
The trash can needs cleaning, too. Empty it!
Moreover, it is necessary to evaluate and match the consulting school, technology or recommendation according to the other party's situation.
You can't see the efforts of the counselor.
Of course, there are thousands of consultations every hour.
However, if you can really "listen to his words", you will be suddenly enlightened.
Maybe it's not just a matter of value.
Is to save your family, your life, even your life.
However, psychological counseling is not everything.
Psychological immunity needs self-growth and change!
Psychological counselor is just a tool for you to explore yourself!
She accompanied you for a muddy and dark road, and she couldn't accompany you for the rest.
Unless you have money!
Still have to go by yourself!
This is a very abstract service process, seemingly simple chat, in fact, it takes a lot of effort.
To become a qualified consultant, the time cost and money cost of learning are enormous.
Besides the communication process, preparation in the early stage, customer maintenance in the later stage, and psychological counseling will consume a lot of time and energy.
One more thing, the industry itself is not just needed, the market is small, and psychological counselors have to survive. How can you live if you want to keep others busy for a few days and charge the price of your cabbage?
So whether the price is high or not depends entirely on whether you think it is worth it.
Psychological shadow and spiritual comfort are good medicines to open the key to people's hearts, which are reasonable. There are not many keys to open this lock. How can it not be expensive?
You know, the cost of various training courses for learning psychology is outrageous.
It is right to pay for knowledge. The existence of this industry has cured many people with mental problems. Nowadays, social development is getting faster and faster, social pressure is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more people with mental problems. This industry is worth popularizing to help people treat mental illness. .
Is psychological counseling expensive?
Hundreds an hour, some people think it's expensive. Maybe compared with his income, maybe he doesn't think it's worth spending so much money on his psychological problems. Another external reason is that psychological counseling is not included in medical insurance.
For the former, if the expenditure of psychological counseling seriously affects the quality of life, I don't recommend selling the house for psychological counseling. Psychological counseling is to improve the quality of life. Doing so is counterproductive. After being included in medical insurance, maybe psychological counseling will not seem so expensive. Psychological counseling is an effective way to solve psychological problems, but it is not the only way.
For the latter, perhaps he thinks that mental health is not so important, and there are more important things. Psychological counseling, a hint to our life, is that we need to spend some time to care for our hearts. Once a week's psychological counseling, in an exclusive space, to nourish our hearts, is really a seemingly extravagant behavior. Some people think it's worth it, while others naturally don't like it. Not expensive, but he thinks there is something more important than this.
After the epidemic, many psychological counselors are doing public welfare psychological assistance. Here, pay tribute to them. The first ethical principle of psychological counseling is kindness.
This requires a balance between public welfare and personal interests. If I am a psychological counselor and spend most of my time doing public welfare work, my survival and value may not be guaranteed, and public welfare work may not be sustainable. At the same time, the basic values of psychological counseling will require us to do some public welfare things. We need both.
On one occasion, Dr. Zhao Xudong said that he charged thousands of dollars for 20% or 30% of his time. Most of the rest of the time, the price of cabbage in hospitals is several hundred yuan. For him, it is also his public welfare.
The industry of psychological counseling is still developing. Maybe more people need to know what this industry is like. For laymen, there are indeed too many misunderstandings about psychological counseling.
The industry itself is chaotic, and it may not be what you see.
The high cost of psychological counseling is really a bottleneck, which makes many people with this problem unable to get good treatment. I think it's best for people with this knowledge to organize a group like volunteers to benefit more people.
Psychological counseling itself is a very abstract thing, and it is not easy to learn. We should respect knowledge, which is the same as intellectual property rights. We have to pay for this, but some industries have quick results. In my opinion, psychological consultation is the latter, so the consultation fee is appropriate. Of course, this does not include high prices caused by unreasonable factors.
A big potato, fried into hot and sour potato shreds in Samsung Hotel is estimated to cost 30 yuan. This is a technical job.
Knowledge is money.