#psychotherapy and counselling

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Know The Difference Between Psychotherapy and Counseling

Psychotherapy and counseling are often used interchangeably but there are some subtle differences between the two terms. Psychotherapy sessions involve a long-term program offered by mental health therapists while counseling sessions are for a shorter time frame offered by licensed counselors. A trained mental health therapist provides psychotherapy and counseling treatment sessions to people so that they can develop coping mechanisms to deal with their emotions. Read here to understand the four key differences between psychotherapy and counseling treatment. visit here https://shorturl.at/mCOW3

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[kiindr]

you don't have to have a clinical mental disorder in order to go to therapy. you can go to therapy even if:

you are having issues with your interpersonal relationships

you find it hard to regulate your emotions.

you are struggling with balancing different aspects of your life.

you are experiencing a stressful period.

you want to gain more insight into your own thoughts, feelings, and actions.

you want to build skills like time management, assertiveness, emotional management, goal setting, etc.

you feel lost.

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Spooky season is a great time for the young AND the young at heart to PRACTICE “FEAR”. That’s right! Practicing experiencing difficult emotions when we know we’re in a safe environment can help us program our minds to understand emotions - even the difficult ones - are not harmful to us.

Go ahead and enter the creaky doors of that Haunted House. Watch that spooky movie and let the CHILLS run up and down your spine. Decorate your home and yard with ghosts and monsters and witches and zombies; later imagining them all coming to life in the dark of the night.

Guess what will happen when you experience that FEAR? N-O-T-H-I-N-G.

Fear can never harm you though it can be a difficult emotion.

Use this Half-Way to Halloween to create a space for fear that YOU control.

Feel the fear and THEN pay attention to your THINKING. After all, it is your THINKING that is CREATING the fear in the first place.

Change your thinking; change your feelings. Master your thinking; master your life.

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Writing a case study this afternoon. One more case formulation after this to finish the semester. How are you staying motivated?

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anyway not to completely change the subject but my therapist shared this resource with me and i wanna share it with any of y'all who are looking for therapy in the u.s.: open path psychotherapy collective

iirc she did say to be wary of any sponsored listings bc they tend to be from better help, but other than that this is a great resource for finding relatively cheap therapy

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Know The Difference Between Psychotherapy and Counseling

Many often use the terms psychotherapy and counseling, interchangeably, but there is a huge difference between the two. Both aim to promote mental well-being by talking to a trained mental health expert about the feelings and emotions felt by an individual. Both fields are interconnected but have a huge difference.

In this article, we are going to learn the 5 key differences between psychotherapy and counseling treatment.

What is Psychotherapy?

Psychological therapy involves treating mental distress and problems that affect a significant part of an individual's life. As a result, the person often shows the symptoms of isolation or mental conditions in their behaviors, thoughts, or emotions. The trained mental health therapist uses different techniques and strategies to communicate and create a dialogue with the person to help them overcome their thoughts and behaviors.

It is a collaborative method where the psychotherapist and the client will work together to create a treatment plan so that the individual feels the best. The psychotherapist creates a supportive environment, and by the time the session ends, the client has learned new skills to cope with their mental health.

When Psychotherapy is needed: 

Difficulty regulating emotions

Experiencing a change in sleep pattern

Unable to perform productively

Struggling to build and maintain relationships 

Having traumatic experiences and memories

Grieving

What is Counseling?

This involves talk therapy, where an individual discusses problems, emotions, and thoughts with a licensed counselor in detail, either to overcome the thoughts or explore the emotions. The counseling process involves understanding the meaning and supporting the individual so that the problems can be understood in detail. 

The process involves creating a supportive environment for the client where he or she opens up about the problems in detail. The mental health counselor identifies the primary cause and analyzes every tiny detail, like the behavior and reactions of clients. Once the counselor fully understands and assesses the problem, he or she sets an objective and develops an action plan to cope with the issues. There are various ways a client may choose to seek counseling. This includes in-person counseling, group counseling, telephonic counseling, and online counseling.

When Counseling is Needed: 

Feelings of hopelessness

Depressed

Feeling helpless

Less productive

Difficulty maintaining relationships

Difference between Psychotherapy and Counseling

There are times when a person needs both therapies. However, although closely linked to one another, there are specific basic differences. In the following, we are going to learn about the basic difference between the two fields:

Duration of therapy

Psychotherapy sessions involve long-term programs that may take months to years because the sessions involve addressing problems that are rooted in the past. Counseling sessions take place for a shorter period, ranging from weeks to months to address the present difficulties.

Types of treatment and therapies involved

Psychotherapy sessions involve a more theory-driven treatment plan involving various treatment strategies like talking, CBT, art, music, drama, and treatment strategies like talking, CBT, art, music, drama, and so on. The psychotherapist usually helps the individuals using guides such as manuals or protocols. In the counseling session, the individual mainly shares the recent incidents that have affected them. The counseling methods mainly include talk therapy, where the therapist creates a plan using manuals and protocols.

Who can provide the therapy sessions?

Mainly, a certified mental health therapist can provide psychotherapy sessions, so professional training is required to offer the therapy sessions. However in the counseling sessions, trained psychotherapists and licensed professional counselors offer counseling sessions, but there can be other people who can help an individual with counseling. This includes volunteers, social workers, pastoral counselors, and so on.

Focus areas

The area of psychotherapy focuses on healing, mainly teaching individuals coping mechanisms to process emotional trauma from the past. This helps an individual focus on their internal thoughts and feelings to improve their personal growth. However, counseling refers to short-term therapy that offers guidance and support to identify and find solutions to the problems with which the individual is dealing in the present.

Why do people often interconnect both fields?

Although there are some distinct dissimilarities between the two, there are some similarities as well, and terms are widely used interchangeably. This is because both include the development of healing and creating a safe and therapeutic relationship between the therapist and the individual. The main objective is to understand the feelings and help the individual process the emotions to address behaviors and issues, overcome negative thoughts, and improve their lives. The sessions are not limited to any particular age and can be received by both children and adults.

How do I find a Personal Therapist for Psychotherapy and Counseling treatment in Arizona?

It is important to understand the key differences between the two therapies. Both involve creating a strong bond between the individual and the professional. There are various psychotherapy and counseling treatments available in Mesa, Arizona, that focus on emotional and mental healing and treat various symptoms of anxiety, depression, stress, and phobias. Get in touch with the trained therapists at Azitts or Arizona Integrated Telepsychiatry Services for the best psychotherapy and counseling in Arizona. The therapist diagnoses and identifies the triggering cause of the problems and creates a treatment plan that is tailored to meet your mental health needs.

At Azitts, you can contact professionals who are experts in therapy and counseling sessions. Our trained experts also offer therapy and counseling sessions online so that you do not need to spend your time waiting for your appointment and sessions. Book your personal therapist now!

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I already posted about this guy but this article goes into more detail about his fetishes

By Genevieve Gluck November 5, 2023

A trans-identified male academic who was previously criticized for stating that it “would not matter” if women were killed as a result of gender identity policies has been appointed to devise ethical guidelines for therapists. Sophie Grace Chappell, a Philosophy professor at the Open University, is now playing an integral role on the core team tasked with reworking the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy’s (BACP) national ethical framework, reported The Daily Mail, despite apparently lacking qualifications in psychotherapy or counselling.

News of his role prompted criticism from therapists. James Esses, co-founder of Thoughtful Therapists – an organization of clinical psychologists and psychotherapists from across the UK and Ireland “with a shared concern about the impact of gender identity ideology on children and young people,” said that Chappell should be “nowhere near devising therapeutic ethics.”

An unnamed female counsellor told The Daily Mail: “Professor Chappell is completely unsuitable to be deciding what form our ethical framework should take. I fear this person will insert gender ideology into our professional guidelines.”

Chappell first drew outrage from critics in 2021 when, during an interview for Radio Scotland, he told host Kaye Adams that it “wouldn’t matter” if gender self-identification policies led to a “slight spike” in the murders or rapes of women.

“I think we can rightly dismiss that as scare-mongering. It doesn’t matter… It wouldn’t matter if there was a slight spike in those statistics,” he said.

In the online community Mumsnet, women discussed Chappell’s comments with reactions ranging from anger to shock.

“Sophie laughed while making the point, and then rambled about human rights, seemingly forgetting women have human rights too, one of which is not to be murdered,” said one commenter.

Still others took to X (formerly Twitter) to express their outrage. Some pointed to Chappell’s habit of dressing in a style resembling a young girl.

Aspects of blouses and skirts worn by Chappell share similarities with a genre of pornography wherein men dress as and pretend to be little girls. In some cases, men practice “sissification” in public and record their interactions with others as a type of user-generated pornography.

In a 2022 article on the topic of “being transgender” and “growing up,” Chappell wrote, “Secret time spent dressed feminine was time off from public [sic] being masculine. And that was always a huge relief. Dressing masculine was a weariness to the spirit: it made me feel tired, ugly, constrained, trapped, suffocated, awkward, wrong. It still does. But dressing feminine was, simply, a delight: it brought a sense of serene, calm, happy, relaxed, floating-away euphoria that nothing else gave me, a simple and straightforward innocent childlike joy; just a sense of rightness. It still does.”

Chappell added that the future of feminism, in his view, should focus on concepts such as “live and let live,” “play nicely,” “love is all you need,” and said that he believes women should not “forbid or condemn anything at all unless you really need to.”

In June 2020, Chappell wrote an open letter in response to renowned author JK Rowling’s essay addressing her concerns regarding the gender identity movement. In it, Chappell refutes her expressed concerns on issues involving safeguarding, and advocates for sex self-identification.

“Perhaps you, Ms. Rowling, think that there’s something dark and terrible – and monstrous? – about trans women. You certainly seem to frame us as a threat,” Chappell wrote. “Trans people are one of the most discriminated-against groups in the world!”

He continued to undermine the position that allowing men to access women’s intimate spaces would result in harm. “Women of every kind should be and feel safe in the public toilets. Of course they should; everybody should. But trans women are simply not a threat to women’s safety,” Chappell admonished.

“If we google hard enough, we can find bad anecdotes about trans women attacking other women in the toilets; the tabloids go to town on such anecdotes whenever possible, and so do some trans-unsympathetic feminists. But anecdotes aren’t data.”

He then recommended that JK Rowling seek out educational materials from a trans activist organization which creates “transgender toolkits.”

Previously known as Timothy Chappell, he began claiming to identify as female in 2014 after marrying a woman and fathering four daughters.

He has also been known as Christian Sophie Grace Chappell, and served as the director of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) from 2015 to 2018.

But Chappell is not the only trans-identified male with an apparent affinity for age regression and sissification who has been associated with the BACP.

As previously revealed by Reduxx, a prominent psychologist within the Gender Identity Clinic at Tavistock has called for normalizing “age play,” “infantilism,” and “sissification.” Dr. Christina Richards, a trans-identified male and an Accredited Psychotherapist with the BACP, is responsible for a publications which seek to rebrand extreme fetishes as “further sexualities.”

In 2013, Richards co-authored a professional guide on sexuality and gender, in collaboration with Meg John Barker, a senior lecturer in psychology at the Open University. In the writing, Richards places extreme and violent sexual practices on the same spectrum as heterosexuality, homosexuality, and bisexuality.

In the guide Richards introduces age play, which involves “an adult identifying as a baby or young child, and is also known as adult baby/diaper lover (ABDL) or infantilism. There may be a sexual aspect… associated with humiliation.”

Richards goes on to describe how adults who engage in ‘age play’ accumulate various objects and apparel associated with childhood, including children’s clothing. Often one adult will roleplay as being any age from infancy to teenage years, while another adult participates in a dominant sexual role.

“Terms which may be encountered here include daddy’s little girl (DLG) in which an older male top treats a younger female bottom as a nurtured child,” Richard elaborates. “The term ‘sissification’ intersects with age play as it is where an adult male is consensually ‘forced’ to don the clothes of, and behave as, a young girl as part of a BDSM scene. The humiliation the adult male feels at being dressed as a young female is the source of the eroticisation.”

He boasts several other affiliations and titles, such as serving on the Executive Board of the European Professional Association for Transgender Health (EPATH), and as Board-Member-at-Large of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).

Before becoming a board member, he was selected by the executive board of the WPATH to be Lead Chapter Author for Adult Assessment in the Standards of Care Version 8 (SoC v8) revision, the drafts of which were finalized in the fall of 2022.

In addition to his work with the Gender Identity Clinic, Richards serves as the chair of the British Psychological Society and oversaw guidelines that advise mental health professionals that it can be acceptable to refer to a client as a “slut.”

Ok speculation on my part but I found his bio

and based on his dates of birth and marriage he likely came out as trans when at least some of his four daughters were still teenagers. I think this is another case of a man becoming trans when the attention was on the women of the family, they were the ages to start dating, discussing colleges, etc

I so want a mental health surgery of Trans identified people just to see how many come out when the attention is on others near them. It would fit with the higher levels of narcissism in the TQ+ community

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[kiindr]

Recently, I came across someone posting a video of them having coffee in a rainy landscape and captioning it- “Therapy session”.

Yes, therapy sessions can feel good like a steaming mug of coffee in the rain sometimes, but what a lot of people don’t understand is that it’s not always like that.

That therapy, is a *process* that requires tremendous skill on the part of the therapist, and cooperation from the client.

That it doesn’t always feel good. More often than not, you can end up feeling the opposite after a therapy session and that’s okay. It’s not easy to work on yourself like that.

So no. Therapy is not your favorite book. It is not your best friend. It is not your favorite activity. It is not a TV show.

It is a journey carried upon the back of trust, care, and patience among many other things and to reduce it to certain things, people, and phenomena is misleading and unhelpful.