What Do You Expect from a Good Psychologist?

I guess you think he should listen to me first. But if you say that I expect from him to do an active and solution-oriented listening that is fully concentrated on me at that magical moment, not just in the taste of conversation, half-hearted listening, as my buddy or colleague does from time to time, I would agree.I also think he should do that.

A Good Psychologist Listen Without Judging

I would agree with you with all my heart, if you say almost everyone else is judgemental. Judging you according to his own value judgments might be expected from a psychologist who is not fully aware of his job. But a good psychologist knows well that judging people is not his job, moreover, it would be crossing the line.

Psychologist Should Be Ready For A Complete Empathy With Me

If you say that you don’t want to worry about whether he will understand me, be ready to make all the effort to understand me and affect my emotional world, I would join you again. Empathy is a concept we hear a lot but don’t understand equally. The person who empathizes cannot be expected to take your place, to think exactly like you. Empathy is an effort to understand someone else’s world, circumstances, feelings and the environment that created them while remaining oneself. A strong empathy requires being non-judgemental, humane, and non-arrogant. It requires humane attention. A good psychologist is someone who already has them and is therefore called a good psychologist.

A Good Psychologist Should Hold a Mirror to Me

If you say let him hold a mirror to me, so that I can see my weaknesses and strength better, and thus my awareness increases and I can use my potential, then I would agree with you with all my hearth again. I think that’s one reason people come to therapy. They want the psychologist as an expert to tell them things about themselves that they might not be sure about – maybe like opening the black box – and I think this is a very innocent request.

If you say that you expect a good psychologist to show you new perspectives and encourage you to look for solutions that you are unable to see, perhaps because you are too focused on problems, I would again agree with you completely. A good psychologist should do these things, and I’m sure many of my friends do.

The features I listed above are things that come to mind automatically when you think of a good psychologist. If what you expect is limited to the things listed above, our job is already easy and you don’t need to come to us. There are many good psychologists in the triangle of Beylikdüzü, Bahçeşehir and Büyükçekmece where we also serve. So, what else do we promise as the “iyimserpsikoloji.com” team and why are we so assertive?

Because for us you are not just a case, but primarily human;

Because we are willing to accompany your journey to be better, to be yourself, not because technique dictates that we should do so, but because we still believe and love people;

Because we are optimistic, we believe in the power of optimism and there is definitely a solution somewhere; possibly at a place you forgot to look at;

Because we ourselves are doing our job with a sense of happiness and meaning fed by optimism; Moreover, we are determined to infect you with our happiness, of course, if you allow it;