Psychotherapist
A psychotherapist is a counselor who uses interpersonal communication to aid clients in problems of living. This usually includes increasing individual sense of well-being and reducing subjective discomforting experience. Psychotherapists employ techniques of dialog and communication to improve the mental health of a client, or to improve group relationships (such as in a family).
Applied to skin picking disorder, psychotherapy can address the emotional aspects of the disorder, alleviate stress and anxiety built in a patient as a result of having the disorder, and help the patient open up and talk about his/hers problem.
Psychotherapists differ from psychiatrists in that they cannot deal with the physical side of illness, since they are not qualified medical doctors.
