HHC Centre An Insider's Guide To Psychotherapy | Page 7

Psychotherapists: What are
they?
Psychotherapy is a technical term for therapy, it’s the
recovery of one's mind without the use of medication. A
psychotherapist utilizes their ability to understand and
read people to provide psychological methods of
recovery, this is achieved through regularly scheduled
appointments with the patient to offer ideas and
methods to overcome the issues brought to them. For a
long time therapy only existed through psychiatrists who
focus more on prescriptions medication treatment than
the complete evaluation of the patie t’s mental state.
Psychotherapy is designed to improve the state of mental
health through certain tactics proven to treat mental
disorders. Some even call it pseudoscience, but this kind
of therapy has proven to work far better than a
prescription ever could. Medication can regulate one's
impulses, but it a ’t offer them effective methods to live
in this society with their illness. Psychotherapy offers just
that.