Consultation from the inside My professional interests are related to psychology. Firstly, I am a practicing psychologist. Secondly, I teach students. Thirdly, I explore the mental processes of myself and others. That’s why I’m interested in writing about this, although sometimes it’s difficult for me. But the more I practice, the more I teach, the more I want to generalize something of my own, the more I want to share experiences that are difficult to read about somewhere. I really like psychologists, with their troubles, with a thirst for life and knowledge, for their love for the profession and people. I want to help beginners. Stop making judgments like “Our society is not ready to go to a psychologist, everyone is very scared by comparisons with psychiatry...” I do not agree with this. Society wants to go to psychologists. But they are hard to find. The stage of formation of practicing psychologists has not yet ended, and maybe has not yet begun in the sense that I imagine the work of the community of psychologists. Many beginning psychologists are quite competent, there are many talented teachers and professionals who prepare them. Their knowledge is enough to conduct a qualified consultation, engage in counseling or psychocorrection. Their disadvantage is usually that they do not share these methods of providing psychological assistance. In addition, the craze for various types of psychotherapy generally confuses novice psychologists. Many trainings and educational seminars do not prepare for individual work in terms of consultation, counseling and psychocorrection. Mostly a superficial understanding of psychotherapy is given. Those who give do not fully understand what they are giving, but the exercises are interesting, the classes are fun and relaxed and of course in group work. And what do they teach? Anything but consultations. It turns out that there are no qualified counselors and no qualified psychotherapists (my article discusses non-medical psychotherapy). Because the psychotherapist, among other things, is obliged (I don’t like this word, but we’re talking about something sacred – the mental health of clients) to undergo personal psychotherapy, and not in the sense of credit hours, where the relevance of the problem is somehow artificial, but for real, feeling that there is a strong the desire to understand oneself, that it’s even somehow scary to come to this psychotherapist for an appointment. And go to him through this fear in order to get pleasure through tears, snot, hysterical laughter, sighs, blush on the face, sweaty palms, chill in the chest, heartbeat, being distracted for minutes and hours, resting in conversations about yourself as an outsider and go again towards yourself, this can be unpleasant...Psychotherapy is not what is taught at training seminars if it has not been lived, enjoyed and there is no desire to pass on this pleasure to others. This is only a relationship between us, between me, sometimes in a chair, sometimes on the sofa. And somewhere at the top or in the depths, psychotherapy turns into egotherapy, when the psychotherapist treats by presenting himself. There are still very few psychotherapists in our country who do this. But the fact is that there are no good consultants, although there are expert psychologists. For me, for my experience, it is important to distinguish such important concepts as consultation, counseling, psychocorrection and psychotherapy. For some, this may be clearly understandable, but broad. (For example, Rogers and May constantly replace psychotherapy and counseling in their texts. Kociunas tries to differentiate between psychotherapy and everything else, again mixing consultation, counseling and psychocorrection. Moreover, his criterion is the health (!) of the client. Healthy people go for counseling, and sick people for psychotherapy! Sidorov and Parnyakov and many other domestic and foreign theorists and practitioners write about the same thing. There is also no consensus in psychological dictionaries! In parentheses - for IV) Probably, here, at the very beginning of the path of a practicing psychologist, the problem begins. It seems to him that he has little qualifications, although he has a lot of knowledge. His knowledge is passive for only one reason: he does not know in which field he is working. It seems to me that any graduate.