Psychotherapist jobs

For all the latest complementary careers including psychotherapist jobs check our comprehensive job pages. Talking with clients, psychotherapists help them explore emotional problems, deal with distress, or develop coping strategies. Psychotherapist jobs involve the use of a variety of collaborative processes to establish a relationship with the client.

Treatment is effective with both individuals or groups, and psychotherapists work with adults and children alike. Psychotherapists use a number of different approaches:

• Psychodynamic - focuses on childhood experiences, dreams, the unconscious and the dynamics of the client-therapist relationship
• Behavioural - works on the principal that damaging behaviours can be changed
• Cognitive - works by attempting to question and change self-deprecating thoughts and habitual responses
• Humanistic and integrative - based on self-development and personal growth
• Person-centred - based on developing inner resources
• Interpersonal/systemic - works by changing transactions and roles within relationships.
  
  

Opportunities for psychotherapists exist in the NHS, the public sector, or with voluntary organisations. Other practitioners are self-employed, running their own private practice. There are a variety of ways to increase your employment possibilities, by developing a portfolio of services that you can offer. For example:

• Working in a variety of specialisms, for example, with children
• Working in mental health settings such as hospitals
• Working with private clients to help them make changes in their lives
• Training other professionals
• Teaching or lecturing
  
  

There are a number of governing bodies to whom you can turn for further information:

• British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
• United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)
• British Confederation of Psychotherapists (BCP)
• British Association of Psychotherapists (BAP)
• Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP)

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