10 Advantages of the "Psychotherapist" qualification

The further training in psychotherapy is consistently designed to be part-time and can be completed alongside a full workload.

Summary of the most important advantages of further training in psychotherapy:

  1. There are various directions or methods in psychotherapy that are suitable for specific areas of interest and application. The most important main groups are Cognitive-behavioral, psychoanalytical, systemic and humanistic approaches.
  2. Many positions are already awarded to psychotherapists in training, so that it is possible to complete the practical training as part of the regular position.
  3. Due to the dual focus of further training in psychotherapy for doctors and psychologists, access is open to two different professional groups at the same time.
  4. With delegated psychotherapy, psychological psychotherapists can also bill health insurance companies.
  5. Parallel to the training, the participants also look at their own topics in supervision sessions, so that the training also contributes to their own further development.
  6. Some schools offer separate courses for doctors and psychologists. This means that the classes are very uniform in terms of the previous training and experience of the participants, which can increase learning success.
  7. There are courses at psychological training institutes as well as at university psychology faculties. This means that there is a wide range of courses available in every geographical region.
  8. The duration of the training can be adapted to personal possibilities by taking modules more intensively or with more time between them.
  9. According to experts, the need for well-trained psychotherapists will continue to increase as the complexity of modern life overwhelms more and more people.
  10. There have been calls for psychological psychotherapists to be licensed directly by health insurance companies, i.e. to be able to bill health insurance companies without delegation by a specialist.

Overview of schools "Psychotherapist (certified)"