Until recently, it was not customary in our country to turn to a psychologist if personal problems arise. It was more usual to cry to a friend or mother. Or just brush aside personal experiences. Do not pay attention to them. As a result, internal fears, complexes, crises significantly reduce the quality of human life and can even lead to physical illnesses. In modern society, the situation is changing markedly.
People began to realize that mental health problems were just as important as bodily problems. And they began to increasingly turn to specialists for help. One of such professionals is Sergey Vladimirovich Gudkov, a psychotherapist with extensive experience and experience.
Psychologist or psychotherapist: whom to contact?
First you need to decide which specialist to contact. What is the difference between a psychologist and a psychotherapist? The difference is that the therapist is a doctor, the psychologist is not. The first has a higher medical education, practice in psychiatry, and professional psychotherapeutic training. The therapist makes diagnoses, treats, prescribes medications. This specialist can heal pathological problems, combining word treatment with medical intervention.
A psychologist is a specialist who has received a specialized education in a humanitarian university. The psychologist deals only with healthy people (the exception may be clinical psychology). It can help a person understand a specific difficult life situation, establish relationships in the family, at work, and solve personal growth issues. The psychologist does not treat and does not have the right to prescribe medications.
Having determined how a psychologist differs from a psychotherapist, we can conditionally say that the first are addressed by clients, and the second by patients.
short biography
Sergey Gudkov was born on October 4, 1976. Lives and works in Siberia, married, has two children. Sergei Vladimirovich went the classic way towards his profession. He graduated from the Siberian State Medical University in Tomsk with a degree in psychiatry, completed a specialization in psychotherapy at Altai State University and retrained at the Novosibirsk Institute of Family Therapy, where he received the qualification as a “family consultant”.
Sergey Gudkov is a laureate of a competition in the field of education and science in the Tomsk Region, a member of the All-Russian Professional Psychotherapeutic League. He is the author of many books on practical psychology. Sergey loves to watch people, write interesting articles about it, keep his own Internet resources, read and swim.
Gudkov’s technique
Sergey Gudkov is a psychotherapist with extensive experience, including research activities. As a result, he developed his own method of losing weight, created a course for women "Break out of the captivity of food." Gudkov is one of the authors of the project “The Country of Slender”, conducts his practice in Yakutia, where due to the peculiarities of traditional nutrition a lot of overweight people. Therefore, one of the professional interests of a psychotherapist is to help people lose weight without strict diets and violence against the body.
Lose weight without stress
The doctor believes that the main problem of excessive completeness lies not in heredity or an improper diet, but in the psychological problems of the individual. One way to deal with stress is to eat tasty and plentiful. Sergei Gudkov also believes that “magic” remedies for excess weight do not exist. Losing weight with tablets or relying solely on willpower is fraught with problems for the body. What to do?
The main tips of the psychotherapist Gudkov:
- eat hearty food;
- to get up from the table completely full, and not slightly hungry;
- eat fractionally (up to 6 times a day);
- to formulate the goal of losing weight (appearance, health), clearly present your new image.
Family counselor
Sergey Vladimirovich's specialization is family psychotherapy. He conducts individual and group classes, actively advises people on Skype and on specialized Internet sites.
The doctor helps to deal with problems at work, to establish relationships in the family, including with adolescents. Gudkova is distinguished by a high degree of empathy and interest in the client. He does not teach, does not crush, but clarifies and guides the person, helping him to make the right decision. A serious work of a psychotherapist is to help get rid of all kinds of addictions, work with co-dependent people.
Getting rid of fears
Another important and inalienable professional skill of a psychotherapist is assistance in the fight against personal fears and anxiety. Fear is an integral part of the psyche of a healthy person. But often people suffer from irrational anxiety. Long-term fears turn into phobias. And in this case, the help of a specialist is needed, says Sergey Gudkov. According to the doctor, a person can fight his phobia for many years on his own, and a psychotherapist, with the correct diagnosis, can cope with the situation in 1 hour.
Gudkov believes that all obsessive anxieties and conditions are rooted in childhood. By correctly setting the root episode in childhood, which was the start for a phobia, you can change the image of the past, thereby eliminating the cause of anxiety. Gudkov advises his clients in emotionally difficult situations to try to step back and look at themselves and their fear from the outside. From the position of an observer, it is much easier to deal with it.
Gudkov Sergey Vladimirovich about 20 years engaged in psychotherapeutic activities. He is still in love with his profession and is always ready to lend a helping hand to a person who really wants it.