Psychological consultation

When a psychologist is needed

Consultation is required when it is necessary to correct mental problems that have arisen as a result of adverse life situations. Personal admission of a specialist is recommended when the following problems and difficulties appear:

• Problems in relationships with others, including difficult adolescents.
• Cases when life stereotypes and complexes interfere with personal development, while self-esteem decreases, which prevents success.
• Anxiety, fears and other behavioral disorders, including serious illnesses, addictions, in pregnant women.
• Psychological help will help with anxiety, suicidal thoughts, deterioration of vitality.
• When working with minors, a child and adolescent psychologist will help. Timely correction of the child’s psyche will allow you to get a lasting clinical effect and avoid many problems in the future.

Admission of a psychologist for a teenager or child is recommended in such cases as:

• Insularity, hyperactivity, hysteria or aggressiveness.
• In case of speech disorders, you will need individual help from a speech therapist.
• Help for a teenager is required with distracted attention, which leads to deterioration of cognitive abilities.
• Family problems–Poor understanding with parents, jealousy of other children, selfishness and other behavioral disorders.
• With sleep disorders, chronic fatigue, depression, reduced concentration will help to cope with a consultation of a clinical psychologist.

Other medical specialists or family doctors are often sent to classes with a psychologist if radical treatment is required, which helps relieve unnecessary emotional stress. Sometimes, a psychologist for parents and in some cases a psychiatrist may be needed to restore family relationships.

How is the reception going?

The primary reception does not require any additional preparation and is inexpensive. The main thing to understand is that the initial individual consultation will help to understand the problems, will be the first step to their solution. Reception with a psychologist resembles a trusting conversation with a pleasant person who does not give obsessive advice, but helps to independently find the optimal way out of the situation. It proceeds in several stages:

• Meet you. To do this, it will take a few minutes, the patient tunes in to communicate, and the clinical psychologist already produces an initial analysis and calculates.–How many more sessions are needed.
• Awareness of the problem with its subsequent study, setting the expected goals. For example, a family psychologist will help to establish relationships in the family, but this will happen only when the client sets himself such a goal.
• Direct consultation, in which deep analysis is carried out, and solutions are outlined and conclusions are drawn. This communication is based on his professional knowledge about the functioning of the human psyche.
• In complex disorders, one session will not help to finally understand the problem, in this case, a second visit to the medical center may be necessary.

When working with children, parents of a teenager may need additional services, for example, consultations for both parents or only for the mother.

What problems does a psychologist solve?

A good specialist in the first hour will attract the patient, so the effect will be visible after the first session. After receiving and completing the course of joint work, the following positive changes can be observed:

• Reducing anxiety, which is important for pregnant women, parents, adolescents and children, patients before surgery and other complex procedures.
• Working with a family psychologist will help overcome the crisis of 3 years, establish relationships in the family, get rid of obsessive stereotypes and complexes, prevent domestic violence, and provide a perspective for development.
• You can completely get rid of bad habits and addictions.
• Normalization of sleep, withdrawal from depression, improvement of cognitive abilities.
• Removal of phantom pain syndromes and other negative conditions.
• Getting rid of post-traumatic syndrome.

Contacting a specialist and further session, regardless of the cost of services, will help to believe in yourself, leave behind a negative attitude, build new positive relationships with others. The help of a family psychologist will make it possible to get rid of clinical depressive conditions that lead to diseases, will set and achieve maximum goals.

You can register online at the private medical center Neuro-clinic at any time convenient for you. We will help you quickly pass the examination and solve the accumulated problems, and the affordable cost of the consultation will help everyone. You can find out how much the session and additional services cost by phone or through the feedback form.

What distinguishes a psychologist from a psychotherapist

Psychologist and psychotherapist—Mental health professionals, but their roles, qualifications and methods vary significantly. Psychologist—This is a specialist with higher psychological education who has been certified. He deals with the diagnosis of mental states, counseling, psychological testing and behavior correction. Psychologists work with adaptation to stress, personality development, career guidance, without using medications. Their approach is based on empirical methods: observation, surveys, projective tests such as the MMPI or the Rorschach test.

Psychotherapist—A doctor is usually a psychiatrist with additional specialization in the field. He treats mental disorders (neuroses, depression, phobias), using evidence-based methods: cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), psychoanalysis, Gestalt therapy. Psychotherapists have the right to prescribe psychotropic drugs to increase effectiveness.

Key differences between specialists

• Education:Psychologist has humanitarian and psychological education; psychotherapist—specialized medical.
• Area of work:The psychologist usually counsels relatively healthy people, although he can work with patients who have already been diagnosed with psychological problems; the therapist treats serious mental disorders.
• Methods:Methods used by the psychologist—Diagnostics, counseling, techniques for adapting to stress; the therapist uses psychoanalysis, various types of therapy, prescribes and controls medication.
• Regulation:The psychotherapist is licensed by the Ministry of Health as a doctor of appropriate qualification.

Simply put, there is a key criterion: a psychologist is needed for moral support in difficult life situations, and in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness.—psychotherapist. In many cases, the collaboration of these professionals is required.