1. Why should I charge for psychological counseling?
First of all, consultation fees can stimulate the subconscious changes of visitors and make them pay more attention to consultation through charging.
② Psychological counselor is a social occupation, and the nature of psychological counseling contains helpful elements. Just like other helping professions, such as doctors. Similarly, consultants also need this job to locate their social functions.
(3) Charging is a setting to draw a clear line between visitors and consultants and prevent confusion. (This is very important for consultants)
Finally, a good consultant needs a lot of time and money to grow up, and needs to constantly learn and improve himself and experience, so consulting fees are inevitable.
2. What is the appropriate consultant fee?
Psychological counseling is a process that needs the cooperation of both parties, from the outside to the inside, from beginning to end, * * * work together. For free psychological counseling, visitors often don't have enough motivation to actively explore and change themselves when receiving treatment. They always hope that counselors can comfortably solve the problems that have plagued them for a long time. This concept of waiting for others' help without doing anything is itself a morbid concept.
The charge of psychological consultation is to make visitors pay attention to and cherish the consultation process through appropriate economic contributions, which is a sign of respect for their own performance and the hard work of consultants. The economic contribution of visitors is a necessary condition to pay attention to the enlightenment brought by the communication between the two sides, make them make continuous progress, enhance their self-awareness, sense of responsibility and self-control, and finally obtain satisfactory curative effect.
In addition, psychological counseling is an industry that needs lifelong learning and growth. Every counselor must participate in business study, communication, professional supervision and personal experience all his life if he wants to continue in this industry, improve his professional skills, maintain a good state of psychological consultation and treatment, and better serve visitors.
These learning processes are also paid and expensive. According to a consultant who has worked for ten years, it is normal to spend money on a small house. Therefore, psychological counseling and therapy is an expensive profession. Without proper fees, it is impossible to maintain the normal and benign development of psychological counseling and treatment.