Why do counselors charge?

  Professional psychological counseling is a paid service, mainly adopt the standard of charging on time, the main reason for charging: 1, psychological counseling is a counselor to help visitors, very serious commitment to the process of solving psychological problems, psychological counselor to pay is a very high professional and technical special labor, requires a lot of time, energy and brain power, fee consulting is the visitor respect themselves, respect This is a reflection of the visitor’s respect for himself/herself and the counselor’s work.  2.The important prerequisite for the consultation to be effective is the visitor’s trust in the counselor and the belief that the counseling can bring help to him or her, and the paid consultation is the best expression of trust.  3.After the consultation fee is charged, it means the establishment of the consultation relationship, which naturally forms a service contract relationship and shows the sincerity and trust of the helper, and at the same time, it also gives the responsibility and obligation to the counselor, so that both sides of the consultation always keep a certain distance from the reality, and it is easy to establish a good consultation relationship, so that the consultation process is always controlled within the professional framework, thus avoiding many unnecessary realistic entanglements; in this Under this circumstance, the helper will generally take the initiative to cooperate and consult according to the appointment, and the consultant will be more dedicated to the service after charging the fee, so that both parties can devote themselves to it, and the consulting effect can be guaranteed.  4.Consultation fee itself has a certain role in psychotherapy and personality correction: the process of psychological counseling requires the cooperation of both sides of the consultation and joint efforts. In the case of non-fee-based counseling, visitors often do not have enough motivation to actively explore and change themselves when receiving counseling, and they always hope that the counselor will comfortably solve the problems that have been bothering them for a long time, and this concept of waiting for others’ assistance without acting or paying is itself unrealistic and a cognitive bias that needs to be corrected.  5.Fee-based services are a kind of behavioral regulation for both consulting parties. Consulting at the agreed time and according to the discussed contents and procedures is more targeted and has a positive effect on strengthening the self-awareness and responsibility of both consulting parties.  6. It can prevent the visitor from relying too much on the counselor, which is beneficial to the visitor’s growth, and it can also reduce the occurrence of empathy and counter-empathy, as well as prevent the counselor from maliciously attacking the visitor.  With free counseling, both parties are often more casual and the counselor is not professional enough. The visitor is unlikely to pay attention to the counselor’s guidance, and may treat the counselor as an object for venting bad emotions and self-expression, sometimes talking at length, but far away from the crux of the psychological problem, talking when they want to, leaving when they want to. It is even frustrating to feel that one’s careful efforts have become something that others can do without. Freud once said: “Psychotherapy without fees is not beneficial to the patient.  Therefore, the essence of fee-based psychological counseling is to be responsible for the visitors, responsible for the counselor’s services, and responsible for the development of the counseling profession!