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Have you ever thought about training as a therapist? Therapy as a profession is demanding, responsible, fascinating and varied. Thanks to the ever-increasing demand for therapy, specialists in this field are in great demand throughout medicine and the healing arts. Working with people - self-employed or employed - who can be relieved of ailments and complaints through therapy.

Here you will find suitable schools as well as further information, tips and resources for further training as a therapist. Would you like personal advice on the training courses on offer? Contact the provider of your choice using the "Free information on the topic..." button - it's quick, easy and non-binding.

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Therapist training: providing support in the therapeutic field

Therapists practise a therapeutic profession by using a specific therapeutic procedure for healing. The term therapy means service, care and healing (translated from ancient Greek). Therapists treat their patients holistically and not just the symptoms. It is a treatment based on diagnostics. Patients' complaints can be both physical and psychological in nature. Therapists can treat injuries, chronic illnesses or disabilities. The therapy is long-term, divided into individual sessions. Only an understanding of fellow human beings leads to good results in therapeutic professions.

These can be, for example, the following therapy professions:

  • Physiotherapist - works with various manual procedures and relaxation techniques, in muscle training and in relieving or correctly loading restricted areas of the body
  • Psychotherapist - awakens the other person's willingness to talk through good rhetorical skills
  • Social therapist - recommended, for example, for nursing staff who want to respond more emotionally and intensively to their protégés
  • Behavioral therapist - based on the findings of modern learning theory - assuming that every behavior can be learned, maintained, but also unlearned again
  • Occupational therapist - support people with limited capacity to act to shape their everyday lives positively and as autonomously as possible
  • Speech therapists - treat speech, language, voice, fluency and swallowing disorders in people of all ages
  • Complementary therapist - support the emotional, mental and physical balance and recovery of people through holistic methods such as kinesiology, shiatsu or yoga therapy
  • Art therapist - accompany and support people during change processes, crises and illnesses
  • Learning therapist - accompany children, young people and adults on their personal learning journey

Therapists must be empathetic and have no fear of contact with other people. Nurses or social education workers can specialize in new and innovative therapies through further training for therapists. Here, further training is a good way of expanding knowledge in the therapeutic field.

Would you also like to provide mental and physical well-being? Would you like to solve existing problems and offer your support as a therapist? Here you will find training and further education courses for therapists as well as the corresponding training providers. Request further information on therapist training and further education quickly and easily here.

Questions and answers

In addition to the therapy method, therapist training also teaches you general therapy knowledge and more about practice management. Therapeutic know-how includes:

  • Building appreciative and trusting relationships
  • Recording of complaints, illnesses and performance impairments
  • Recognizing resources
  • Development of therapy goals and therapy plans
  • Shaping the self-perception and awareness process
  • Promote resources
  • Promote new ways of seeing and acting
  • Supporting the implementation of solution- and motivation-based reorientation in everyday life

Continuing education, further training for therapists takes different lengths of time depending on the direction and type of degree. However, good and well-founded therapist training usually takes three to six years. As a rule, the aim is to learn about people, their health, various disease diagnoses and therapeutic approaches in a mixture of theory and practice. Depending on the specialty, the medical basics must be learned first. Acquiring therapeutic knowledge takes a long time and is important in order to be able to provide good therapeutic work. The training providers provide information on the exact duration of their training courses.

Systemic therapy is a psychotherapeutic method. Problems are not seen by systemic therapists as a disorder of an individual, but as a consequence of a disorder in the social environment of that individual (the system). The family, school or work environment can be a system. As systemic therapists focus on strengths, solutions and resources, the therapy works relatively quickly. In systemic therapy, patients are encouraged to quickly take life back into their own hands.

As a therapist, you can opt for different types of therapy. The most important therapists are

  • Occupational therapists
  • Physiotherapists
  • Cranio Sacral Therapists
  • Psychotherapists
  • Complementary therapists
  • Respiratory therapists
  • Movement therapists
  • Talk therapists
  • Learning therapists
  • Design therapists
  • Social therapists
  • Behavioral therapists

To train as a therapist, you should fulfill the following personal requirements:

  • Empathy
  • Communication skills
  • Physical strength
  • Mental resilience
  • Ability to self-reflect
  • Good powers of observation
  • Networked thinking and action
  • High flexibility
  • Willingness to undergo continuous further training

The following is important in therapy:

  • The relationship between therapist and client must be right
  • Empathy and openness of the therapist
  • Competence of the therapist
  • Trust on the part of those seeking help
  • Understanding of the therapists
  • Self-disclosure: clients should speak openly and honestly about their feelings, thoughts, memories, experiences and problems
  • Therapists listen and do not impose an opinion
  • Causes of the complaints should be better understood
  • Clients must learn to deal better with negative thoughts and challenges
  • Therapists respond to clients and take sufficient time
  • Client must understand the meaning and purpose of the therapy measures

In Switzerland there are the following therapist professions at different levels:

  • Certificate
    • Learning therapist
    • Psychotherapist
    • Riding instructor
  • Professional examination
    • Work educator
  • Higher professional examination
    • Work educator
    • Counselor in the psachosocial field
    • Complementary therapist
    • Art therapist
    • Animal physiotherapist
  • Higher technical college
    • Activation specialist
  • University professions
    • Occupational therapist
    • Speech therapist
    • hysiotherapist
    • Psychomotor therapist
  • Various specialization professions

Of course, word of mouth usually helps when looking for a good therapist. Otherwise, there are usually professional registers or directories of therapists that can help. When choosing a therapist, it is also important to clarify in advance whether the health insurance company will pay for the therapy and whether the therapist can bill the health insurance company. Otherwise, recommendations from doctors or therapists from other areas, online reviews or a preliminary phone call or trial appointment can also help.

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