Posted by alexandra_k on February 25, 2005, at 18:39:16
In reply to Re: sorry guys » alexandra_k, posted by pinkeye on February 25, 2005, at 16:46:02
Thanks. It is good to know (in some kind of perverse way) that other people find it hard to hear other peoples positive experiences sometimes too. I thought it was just me being selfish. :-(
> Alexandra - is there an option that you could afford a private therapist for sometime? Maybe take 2 - 3 months with a private practitioner with a different orientation and once you feel comfortable enough, you can come back to public system and CBT if you need to?
All the clinical psychologists in NZ are CBT trained. CBT slightly outperformed other varieties of psychotherapy (overall) with respect to degree of improvement for comperable numbers of sessions and so the public system has decided that it would be unscientific to deliver anything else.
So when it comes to other varieties of psychotherapy you have councellors who don't have bachelors degrees, councellors who do have degrees (but aren't qualified to deal with mental illnesses) or p-docs who charge the earth.
> OR is private practice totally not affordable?No. Not for me. Not unless someone is willing to negotiate. I can contribute a certain amount (not very much). If they can offer reduced rates and community mental health can pick up the difference then that is the only way.
I will not go back to CBT.
It did me more harm than good.
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