Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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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.

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

healthcare assistant 65% covered clinical psychologist 60% covered dental hygienist 59% covered physiotherapy assistant 59% covered art therapist 58% covered psychotherapist You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from psychotherapist. 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.
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

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

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

Note

How these figures were compiled

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a psychotherapist already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. 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.