Psychotherapist — experienced, anywhere in Pakistan
Depth work — psychodynamic, schema, EMDR, whatever your training was — is the thing people come back for after a short intervention has taken the edge off and left the pattern underneath.
Why we are open to this role
Depth work — psychodynamic, schema, EMDR, whatever your training was — is the thing people come back for after a short intervention has taken the edge off and left the pattern underneath. There is very little of it available privately in Pakistan outside three cities, and almost none of it online. It is also the work where the money conversation matters most, because a course of therapy that runs for a year is a commitment somebody has to be able to afford from the start - so we ask you to contract clearly about length and cost rather than discovering in month five that they cannot continue.
What the work is
- Longer-term individual therapy in your own modality.
- Trauma work, where that is what you were trained for.
- Clear contracting about length and cost, so nobody starts something they cannot finish paying for.
What we ask for
- A named training and the hours behind it.
- Ongoing supervision — for this work we regard it as non-negotiable.
- Two years or more of practice.
Qualification: A psychotherapy training of at least two years with supervised clinical practice. You must be 18 or over.
The arrangement, the same for every role here. You are self-employed. You set your own fee, and there is no charge to be listed. The patient pays you directly and in full — nothing is deducted and nothing is held by us. For a session we introduced, 5% of that fee comes back to us afterwards, towards the video rooms, the booking system and the running costs; this is a charity project and patients are never charged for anything. You keep your own patients, and nothing is owed on work that did not come through us. Your phone number and your address are never published: enquiries reach you through us. You decide your own hours and how many people you take. We check your qualifications, and your registration where your profession has a register, before anybody is approved — nobody is listed on their own word. We do not supervise your clinical practice and we do not carry your indemnity.
Applying takes about ten minutes and puts you in front of a human, not a filter. We check registration numbers against the council register before replying, so allow a few days. You can see and change your application any time at depression.pk/application.
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