Career Overlap Occupation record
RecordJob

Where a psychotherapist can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a psychotherapist already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Psychotherapists assist and treat healthcare users with varying degrees of psychological, psychosocial, or psychosomatic behavioural disorders and pathogenic conditions by means of psychotherapeutic methods. They promote personal development and well-being and provide advice on improving relationships, capabilities, and problem-solving techniques. They use science-based psychotherapeutic methods such as behavioural therapy, existential analysis and logotherapy, psychoanalysis or systemic family therapy in order to guide the patients in their development and help them search for appropriate solutions to their problems. Psychotherapists are not required to have academic degrees in psychology or a medical qualification in psychiatry. It is an independent occupation from psychology, psychiatry, and counselling.

Also known as positive psychotherapist, cognitive behavioural therapist, expert psychotherapist, practitioner of psychotherapy, transpersonal psychotherapist, expert in psychotherapy, integrative psychotherapist, systemic therapist, person-centered psychotherapist, specialist psychotherapist, psycoterapy expert, geriatric psychotherapist.

Professionals 103 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: healthcare assistant, 65%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
healthcare assistant 65% covered clinical psychologist 60% covered dental hygienist 59% covered physiotherapy assistant 59% covered art therapist 58% covered psychotherapist You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from psychotherapist, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a psychotherapist already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A psychotherapist needs 73 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • conclude the psychotherapeutic relationship management skills
  • conditions for the professional practice of psychotherapy social sciences, journalism and information
  • conduct psychotherapy risk assessments information skills
  • discuss the end point of therapeutic intervention communication, collaboration and creativity
  • evaluate practice in psychotherapy information skills
  • historic development of psychotherapeutic schools social sciences, journalism and information
  • keep up with current trends in psychotherapy information skills
  • maintain personal development in psychotherapy management skills
  • psycho-social forms of intervention social sciences, journalism and information
  • conceptualise healthcare user’s needs information skills
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a psychotherapist does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

Index

Look up another occupation

Psychotherapist is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a psychotherapist’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.