How do you find a psychotherapist?

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Some issues have come up from DH's past that he want to sort out.
How do you find a qualified therapist in your area rather than someone who has done night school in counselling?

In yellow Pages, does some 'institute' or professional body have a box advertising all their members?

Go to the BACP website and you should be able to find a link to info in your area. Also, find out from there what qualifications they recommend a therapist should have and ask to see the therapists certificates to prove they have these.

Probably best to get a recommendation, why not ask on here?

Your GP should be able to recommend one. My surgery, for instance, has it's own counsellors and pshycotherapists. Good luck!

btw, the one's at my surgery are available on the NHS. Worth checking out.

Someone who has a diploma in counselling and is registered with the BACP will have completed three years training. using the bacp website is a great idea.
In my area, the local training provider has a list of registered practitioners. where are you?

or try these guys:-

The British Association for Behavioural and
Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) www.babcp.com

If you are looking for a qualified psychotherapist, you could look to see privately someone who works in the NHS as a clinical psychologist. I reckon that if the NHS will have them they must at the very least have the appropriate qualifications, and can't be too dodgy or they would have been kicked out! The guy I see is also a RMN (registered mental nurse) which i guess isn't strictly necessary but is sort of reassuring that the person has done the less glamorous side of the job IYSWIM.

Delgirl - a surgery with its own psychotherapists - wow - here there is a 2 year wait for CBT on the NHS!

I have used physhcotherapists privatlely (oh god spelling) but the best person I have seen was my Community Physiactric Nurse, to whom I was revered by my GP.

If your DH feels able, get him to go to his GP and ask 4 a reverall, also if u do do this, and don't feel comfortable with the 1st person, ask 4 another.

Don't let this lie, now he has made a decision to sort out issues, which is the biggest obstacle - get him to seek out the right support, this may mean a few appointments, but he needs to keep moving towards the final goal of getting it sorted. GOOD LUCK