Therapy Illinois – what do you know about it?

The terms therapy and counseling are often used interchangeably, but there are
significant differences between the two: duration, approach, depth of treatment, testing
and nomenclature.

Duration

Therapy Illinois-duration

Therapy tends to be longer-term. The focus is on deeper issues such as trauma and long-standing mental health conditions such as depression or anxiety and behavioral problems or patterns.

Therapy usually involves more intensive treatment and often explores unconscious processes or childhood experiences.

In our clinic, our doctors are highly trained to provide therapy. Dr. Patricia Nykiel is one of our doctors. She is an astounding clinician that has been working in our clinic for more than 15 years. If you search google engines with the Therapy Illinois key, you will find her immediately.

Counseling Illinois-duration

Counseling is usually shorter and more focused on specific issues such as life transitions such as divorce, moving, job changes, or adjusting to a difficult situation. Counseling is often more solution focused.

Approach

Therapy Illinois – approach

The therapists are often licensed professionals who hold a doctoral degree. Please check our website wegierekpsychology.com where another astute clinician is introduced. Her name is Dr. Katarzyna Lesniak.

Dr. Katarzyna Lesniak. She holds a doctoral degree in clinical psychology. She provides therapy that is usually used to treat more complex mental health disorders and deeper emotional issues. Dr. Katarzyna Lesniak uses a variety of therapeutic approaches to treat her patients.

Each time she evaluates a new patient; she adjusts her approach. At times, she utilizes cognitive- behavioral therapy only. While with other patients, she becomes a psychodynamic psychotherapist. She also uses behavioral approaches.

In other words, psychotherapists, adjust their approach to be individualized for each patient they see. In general, it takes years to become therapist. During those years, therapists complete many years of psychotherapy as well as learn how to conduct testing.

Counseling Illinois – approach

Counselors typically provide guidance and support for specific issues and offer practical advice to help individuals cope with their day-to-day concerns.

Counselors usually hold master degree level licenses or certifications. This depends on where they work and how much education they have completed. Some counselors may hold a master degree, and others may have certificates such as Certified Addiction Counselor (CADC) only. 

Some counselors may hold Coaching Certification only. Certifications usually take months to complete and allow the clinician to provide counseling to specific groups of people, such as people who abuse alcohol, drugs, and/or need coaching to specific things they want to do in their life like getting a new job.

Depth of Treatment

When you search the term Therapy Illinois in google, you will learn that therapists treat more complex mental health disorders and deeper emotional issues.

Within therapy, you can expect not only suggestions how to solve your problems, but also, you will learn who you are, why you got in trouble, and how you can solve the problem at hand.

You will be empowered to find your own resolution that is within you, as most  therapists believe that the patient is capable of solving the problem within a therapeutic atmosphere. That atmosphere is a unique experience that only psychotherapists are trained to provide. This is simply because therapists are trained throughout many years to become highly trained professionals who then combine their educational component with experience.

Counseling, on the other hand, can focus on short-term issues or providing guidelines to help individuals to make decisions, solve problems, or improve communication.

This is not to say that counselors are not capable of providing quality counseling. They are, but their preparation to do so is shorter and does not require as much education and supervision.

Testing

Most therapists hold a doctoral degree in clinical psychology. The doctoral degree in clinical psychology allows them to complete psychological and neuropsychological testing.

Please visit our webpage, wegierekpsychology.com where you can review information about psychological and neuropsychological testing. In our clinic, we have two clinicians, Dr. Wegierek as well as Dr. Lesniak, who complete neuropsychological evaluations.

Counselors, on the other hand, do not complete psychological and/or neuropsychological testing as they simply do not have the qualification to do so. They can complete psychosocial evaluations that include gathering history with the client as well as completion of questionnaires that are available to everyone.

In short, see our specializations:

	Psychotherapy	Tests	Medication Management
Dr. Wegierek		X	X
Dr. Lesniak	X	X
Dr. Nykiel	X

Nomenclature

The therapist term immediately indicates mental health treatment.

The counseling term indicates a broad meaning as counselors are professionals that are representatives working at a law firm or a bank.

Last, but not least, is the fact that if you google Therapy Illinois, you may find out that the therapy term is interchangeably used with psychotherapy. Yes, some doctors of clinical psychology tend to use psychotherapist name as it is rooted in long tradition of performing psychotherapy dated longer than Sigmund Freud.

So, the psychotherapy term was longer and as we all know in today’s world, we tend to make everything easier and, hence, the psychotherapy term was shortened to therapy.

Again, therapy may be used in many different medical fields such as physical therapy, herbal therapy, and aromatherapy. While they are all respected, the psychologists most likely prefer to use the psychotherapy term as when it is used, it is clear and to the point.

Our clinic is open for you. Go and visit us at wegierekpsychology.com

We would like to welcome you as we have the best Illinois psychotherapists. Call us at 708-710-8819 to make psychotherapy appointment. Go to our webpage to request intake. You can also text your name, phone number, pictures of your insurance card, and an email address so we can send you the virtual intake forms right away.