{"id":452,"date":"2018-09-03T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ferguskane.com\/blogs\/?p=452"},"modified":"2020-09-10T12:27:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T12:27:40","slug":"choose-psychologist-ecuador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ferguskane.com\/blogs\/en\/choose-psychologist-ecuador\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Choose a Psychologist in Ecuador."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Why I’m writing this.<\/h2>\n

I have worked in Ecuador as a psychologist for about three years now, both as a therapist and, for a time, as a teacher at Universidad San Fransisco, de Quito.\u00a0 Over that time, I’ve heard numerous tales of bad practice,\u00a0 running the gamut from fraudulent psychologists, inappropriate\u00a0relationships with patients, through to serious breaches of confidentiality.\u00a0 As a result, I\u00a0felt it was\u00a0important\u00a0to write a guide to finding a good enough psychologist.\u00a0 It’s not a guarantee of finding a perfect therapist, but hopefully, it will help avoid the very worst!<\/p>\n

There are many different things to consider when choosing and sticking with a psychologist.\u00a0 To some extent, this will depend on what you need from them and whether their skill set matches with that.\u00a0 \u00a0I’ll deal with that briefly and then\u00a0move onto some more basic issues – like whether your psychologist has any real training, whether they\u00a0are running to Ecuador because they lost their license in their own country, whether they use an evidence-based approach and whether they can do the basics like\u00a0talk about and maintain confidentiality!<\/p>\n

Basic Questions.<\/h2>\n

I’ll\u00a0start with some commonly recommended questions you might want to consider asking, and then I’ll move onto discussing the issues in more detail.\u00a0 I’ve\u00a0adapted\u00a0these questions from the American Psychological Association (APA<\/a>) and added some of my own.<\/p>\n