Consulting & Psychotherapy Adults

What is counseling & psychotherapy?

Counseling/psychotherapy is the process of exchange/interaction between a psychologist and a client (usually an individual/couple/family). Through professional skills and professional ethics, psychologists help clients understand and accept their reality, and find potential in themselves to be able to solve crises. During the counseling process, clients will be provided with a safe and secure environment in which they can share their current difficulties as well as surrounding issues. The psychologist will listen, not judge, and ask questions that help you understand yourself, the difficulties you are facing, how your body and mind cope with them, and build coping skills. On that basis, the psychologist supports clients in solving psychological difficulties, toward well-being and mental well-being.

When do you need counseling & psychotherapy?

When you can’t escape suffering and boredom despite finding many ways to manage. Specifically, some of the following issues:

• Difficulties in activities of daily living.
• Inability to communicate and maintain effective family and social relationships
• Unable to work, distracted, or experiencing severe work procrastination
• Can’t eat normally
• Loss of interest in all daily activities.

When affected to functions in daily life such as:

• Emotional instability (anxiety, prolonged stress, frequent irritability)
• Insomnia or lethargy for long periods
• Suicidal thoughts and/or harm others
• Life imbalance, inability to work, not talking to family/friends, loss of interest, need to find solutions to life problems
• Substance use, abuse, and substance dependence disorders (alcohol, tobacco, drugs,…)

When family, and unhappy relationships, make you stressed and tired:

• Family conflicts (difficulties between husband and wife in interaction and communication, in the way of educating children, in the division of responsibilities)
• Problems encountered when getting married/newlywed, divorce cases; Conflicts between spouses before, during, and after pregnancy
• Intergenerational family conflicts
• Conflicts in the work environment, occupational burnout

When an event happens and you can’t get over the discomfort, the phobia:

• Automobile/motorcycle accidents
• Sports injuries
• Sexual assault or abuse
• Birth experience
• Domestic violence
• Bullying or harassment
• Death of a loved one
• Breakup/Relationship breakdown
• Witness the violence…

Prepare for changes:

• Choose your major/career
• Relocation/workplace
• Start a business plan
• Preparing for childbirth and/or postpartum.
• Transsexual…

Diagnosed and prescribed a combination of treatments for some mental disorders:

• Depressive disorders
• Anxiety disorders
• Social phobias, specific phobias
• Obsessive suspicion
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
• Body dysmorphia
• Sleep disorders …

Why do we need counseling & psychotherapy?

Difficulties related to psychological life or mental health are not simply negative emotional states such as anxiety, insecurity, and boredom but also a complex of many emotional, cognitive, belief, and behavioral problems… These compound states are capable of hurting us no worse than bodily pathologies. In many cases, mental health problems also manifest or are very closely related to physical problems, and long-term sequelae, which negatively affect our quality of life. When faced with problems that we cannot overcome and/or are forced to use negative coping methods, we need to be helped by professionals to overcome our difficulties/crises.

Counseling & psychotherapy service is a professional service, open to all people regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, or religion … and provides significant benefits, without “negative side effects.” When accessing counseling & psychotherapy services, you have absolutely nothing to be ashamed of, it does not mean that you are weak, stupid, or do not know how to overcome difficulties in your life. Mental health problems can happen to anyone, at any time.

Misunderstandings about counseling & psychotherapy: Counseling & psychotherapy is NOT:

• Give advice
• Judge you or your thoughts and actions
• A psychologist will try to solve the problem for you
• Expect/encourage you to behave as you please or in the manner of your counselor.
• Look at your problem from the perspective, personal experience, and feelings of the counselor.

Principles and commitments in counseling & psychotherapy.

• Commit: The psychologist must master the theoretical knowledge at the university and continue to attend additional training programs. Their mission is to treat people with mental health difficulties; Based on their training and experience, each psychologist sets its limits and limitations within the scope of their activities. The psychologist conducts work with his competence and refuses any intervention when he finds himself incompetent to participate.
• Obligation to neutrality and nonjudgment: The psychologist respects the client and accepts them as they are, not judging them according to moral, social, ethnic, or religious criteria.
• Professional confidentiality: Psychologists keep confidential information about their clients’ private lives, and strictly respect professional secrets; Everything that is said during psychological counseling will be kept strictly confidential and not leaked out. The information that is kept confidential includes personal information of the client as well as working tools (client files, examination results, and other documents such as doctor’s orders, letters, certificates,….); When these data are used for teaching or research purposes, they are systematically processed with absolute respect for anonymity, by destroying all elements that allow direct or indirect identification of the persons involved.
• Responsibilities: Within the framework of professional competence, the psychologist decides the choice, applying psychological methods and techniques to treat the client. All interventions by psychologists must follow the regulations of practice as well as current Vietnamese laws.
• Client monitoring: If it is not possible to continue treatment for clients, the psychologist must take appropriate measures to ensure that the treatment is continued by other colleagues, with the consent of those concerned, provided that the new intervention is grounded per the regulations of practice.
• Methodological imperatives: Psychologists are required to use good technical means, not to ensure that therapy is cured for clients. The psychologist is the only one responsible for his conclusions. The psychologist relies on the use of methods and tools to document the clinical psychologist’s paperwork forms; Make conclusions and be able to present your conclusions to your listeners appropriately.
• Scientific quality: The psychologist relies on any type of intervention to reasonably explain the theoretical basis of that approach and structure. All assessments or results may be discussed among professionals.
• Obligation to report: People who are in danger, psychologists are obliged to report to the competent authorities all situations that endanger human integrity; In special cases, when confidential information relates to a potentially harmful situation to a client or a third person, the psychologist should consciously assess how to proceed, based on legal professional confidentiality regulations, to assist the person in danger. By anonymizing clients, psychologists can make their own decisions while consulting with experienced colleagues.
• Independence at work: The psychologist must be detached from influence (pressure, rank, etc.) to acquire the necessary independence and objectivity when practicing; The psychologist does not use his position for personal purposes; The psychologist does not respond to the demands of third persons for ill-gotten or unethical gain, or of those who abuse power for their gain; Psychologists may not rely on their positions to sponsor an offense, and their title does not entitle them to be exempt from their duties under common law; Psychologists do not diagnose or treat people with whom they have personal relationships; The psychologist cannot accept money or gifts other than the official amount paid by the client for the consultation; The psychologist cannot make an appointment to see a client outside of the therapy space; All contact, dialogue and communication between the client and the psychologist are for therapeutic purposes only.
• Obligation to inform: The psychologist must inform the client of the modalities, objectives, and limitations of the work before any intervention. The psychologist begins work only with the specific approval of the client.
• Work with children and adolescents: The psychologist can accept minors upon request, when counseling for minors is requested by a third person, the psychologist requires the specific consent of the child as well as the consent of the child’s parent or guardian.
• Facilities: Work related to psychology and psychotherapy must be carried out in a specially arranged office with appropriate technical equipment; The retention of information relating to clients must be ensured to respect the anonymity of clients and the confidentiality of data; In some exceptional cases, therapy may take place outside of therapy. In this case, the psychologist must inform the client to obtain their consent.

Model of counseling & psychotherapy in Minh Tri.

At Minh Tri, counseling & psychotherapy are approached in an interdisciplinary model, which means that clients will not only be able to work with psychologists but also scrutinize other issues and functions before having an appropriate treatment plan. For example, during counseling/therapy, if the psychologist realizes that the client is at risk of severe mental disorders, the psychologist will transfer the client to Minh Tri Psychiatric Clinic, where doctors will thoroughly examine and consult for effective therapeutic solutions. Minh Tri pursues a multidisciplinary therapeutic model based on the body-mental and social aspects with leading experts in psychiatry, clinical psychology/psychological counseling, and other specialized professionals. Minh Tri’s clinical psychologist and consultant psychologist pursue a cognitive-behavioral and family-systemic therapy approach.

Who is the counselor & child psychotherapist in Minh Tri?

Minh Tri’s psychologists must be trained at least at the master’s level in clinical psychology and pursue many intensive counseling and psychotherapy programs. Minh Tri’s experts all have over 10 years of experience in clinical practice, dedicated to helping clients overcome obstacles and reach their full potential. Minh Tri’s psychologist always strictly adheres to professional ethical standards.