Understanding Therapy
by Eric Bailey, MMFT – Catholic Family Services
Looking for therapy? Need to talk to a counsellor? You’d better do some homework.
I was watching a commercial the other day and the company referred to their sales people as “counsellors”. Banks also have counsellors to help you make financial decisions (I have no idea what qualifications or training they have). Petland advertises for counsellors as well. They are looking for sales people.
The word “counsellor” has no meaning. In fact when Ontario created legislation to protect the public and provide some standards for counselling, they decided to use the word “psychotherapy” because the word “counsellor” is to broadly used to even legislate. In other words the word “counsellor” has no meaning.