Psychotherapist

Work setting

• Clinic

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Provide therapy
• Counsel individuals and groups to achieve more effective personal, social and vocational development and adjustment
• Maintain accurate records
• Plan intervention programs
• Help clients manage physical illness and disorders
• Prepare a treatment plan for each patient
• Observe and analyze patients during treatment sessions
• Interview patients and review reports from health care professionals to determine patients' current and potential functioning levels
• Develop and implement counselling and intervention programs to assist clients in determining goals and means of attaining them
• Interview clients, prepare case histories and assess problems
• Counsel clients, provide therapy and mediation services, and facilitate group sessions
• Evaluate the effectiveness of counselling programs and interventions, and clients' progress in resolving identified problems and movement toward defined objectives

Credentials

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

• Provincial or territorial licence
• Membership in a professional association

Experience and specialization

Type of treatment experience

• Behaviour modification or behavioural therapy
• Client-centered or humanistic/experiential therapy
• Cognitive therapy
• Eclectic therapy
• Psychodynamic analytic therapy
• Psychotherapy
• Brief therapy
• Systematic/interactional therapy