2. Participate in training. Being qualified does not mean that you can do psychological counseling independently, and then you will participate in a series of training. At present, most of the training in China is theoretical and technical training, but for beginners, they should start with skill training and attend a systematic, long-term and formal psychological training course. If the goal is to become a qualified psychological counselor, we must choose training step by step, choose the theoretical school we are interested in, study systematically, sum up experience, and avoid being greedy for more and seeking quick results.
3, quality evaluation, just like doctors can't treat themselves, if you want to be a psychological counselor, you must first understand what problems exist in your own psychology, which is responsible for yourself and future customers. Specifically, students, as visitors, seek psychological counseling from senior psychological counselors to understand and deal with their own problems. Different schools have different requirements for the number of personal experiences, generally ranging from tens to hundreds.
4, accumulate experience, while receiving training, you can find your own opportunities to practice. One of the most difficult problems for novices to solve in their internship is that general consulting institutions do not accept internship consultants. Even if they do, some of them are only nominal internships, which are not helpful to their growth and need to be explored in many ways. After accumulating some practical experience, you can try to enter the consulting agency and start receiving paying visitors.
First of all, we must set aside a fixed time for psychological counseling. This is very important for successful psychological counseling, because in a certain period of time, constant counseling and psychological influence are the basic factors for effective psychological counseling. If time is not guaranteed, consultation will be impossible. Three days of fishing, two days of drying the net, or the treatment that the consultation time is always changing will not work. This is an obstacle to consultation and change. Usually, the frequency of psychological counseling is 1 to 5 hours per week, and some even reach 10 hours. According to different therapies, the overall treatment process is different. Behavioral therapy can take several months, psychoanalytic therapy takes hundreds of hours, usually several years, and some serious cases may require lifelong counseling. Therefore, before deciding on treatment, we must make a good schedule.
The second necessary preparation is economic preparation. The cost of psychotherapy is usually expensive, about 500- 1000 yuan/hour. Be sure to make full preparations and do what you can before consulting.
The third and most important preparation is to be prepared to endure the pain in the process of consultation and change. No matter what kind of therapy, in the process of treatment, patients have to bear certain anxiety and pain, and they have to face, accept and bear their own inner conflicts, which is inevitable in any psychotherapy. It is equivalent to the inevitable pain and blood loss during the operation. At a certain stage of treatment, these pains will even exceed the pain caused by mental illness itself. It can be said that "little pain and little enlightenment, great pain and great enlightenment, no pain and no enlightenment", without painful psychological counseling, can only be regarded as analgesic needles and anesthetics, and the real counseling has not yet been carried out. Psychological counseling with pain and change is the real psychological counseling. Patients who have no courage to bear the pain of treatment cannot benefit from real psychotherapy.
After the above preparations are sufficient, you can consult a psychological counselor. The cooperation in consultation includes many aspects, and the most important thing is to express and express yourself as truly as possible in treatment. In fact, psychological counselors usually have little demand for visitors. As long as you can get in touch with the counselor on time, everything can go with the flow, which is the best and most difficult ideal counseling state.