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.

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