High consciousness therapist?

[Leo Gura]

16 minutes ago, kieranperez said:

Can one become a licensed hypnotherapist without a college degree? 

Probably

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This honestly made my day. 

The improvision and innovation part I think is absolutely necessary for me. Especially since I’m 23 and living at home with a  in SF with no college degree. It’s so hard to backtrack something like this. And plan forward. Paricularly with where I’m at in life. It feels like the monumental impossible thing, paticulary as a wage slave. 

You live in one of the most advanced areas of the world. So cheer up! If you cannot succeed in San Francisco then where can you?

College degrees are so overrated. No one's ever given a rat's ass about my degree (including myself).

You are what you create.

[LoveandPurpose]

@Leo Gura 

Thank you for responding!

Unfortunately in Austria, where I’m going to study (I live in Germany), positive and transpersonal psychology isn’t taught. I saw that in the US there are more opportunities, which seem great.

I also considered life coaching, but I’m kind of scared to go this unsafe route, although I’m quite sure it’s the path that would fulfill me most (not life coaching in particular, but the untraditional path in general).

I also don’t have an overview of all the possibilities there are for my interests. Do you know where I can get more clarity? Or is it not available because it doesn’t exist, due to going offroad and not following the traditional way?

Starting June 2019 I have one gap year where I'm trying to figure this out. I bought the LPC and will try to finish it. Besides this, how should I tackle this, where should I start? How can I most effectively find my path in life?

[LoveandPurpose]

@Serotoninluv

Very helpful response, thank you!

Yes, I’m quite sure that unfortunately in Austria, where I would study, these branches aren’t taught.

You showed me that I need to question my assumptions about being limited to scientic theories and them not solving the root issue.

However, I do believe that they also contain relative truth and that they can be useful. So I really really like this integration of old-school and new age methods you are mentioning. To be a therapist with so many different tools would enable me to help many people. Are there any requirements to be able to use cbt or psychedelics for example to help people? You have to be a licensed therapist with a degree for that, am I right?

[Forestluv]

On 12/19/2018 at 2:33 PM, LoveandPurpose said:

@Serotoninluv

Are there any requirements to be able to use cbt or psychedelics for example to help people? You have to be a licensed therapist with a degree for that, am I right?

I don’t know the requirements to practice traditional modes of therapy. You would need to research that in your country.

I’m not aware of psychedelic therapy that is legally permitted in clinics. In the U.S., MDMA therapy for PTSD is the furthest along at stage III clinal trials. If those go well, we will begin to see supervised clinical MDMA therapy in about 5 years. My sense is other psychedelics are a few years behind MDMA.