The dangers of psychic counsel: is regulation in the crystal ball? Crikey Robyn Lester is a registered nurse, psychic (“clairvoyance, clairsentience & psychometry”) and “counsellor”. Lorraine Janice offers clairvoyant readings, bush remedies and holds a “Diploma of Counselling”. Kristy V ”tells you what your best friend won ... |
Friday, 27 September 2013
The dangers of psychic counsel: is regulation in the crystal ball? - Crikey
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Soren Frederiksen, you are a rookie journalist and it shows. If you had conducted another ten minutes of the type of lazy Google based research that you seem to prefer, you would have found the following. Gabrielle, the counselling 'Industry Insider' that you quote is "fully qualified" by virtue of a 24 week Graduate Diploma of Counselling and Psychotherapy from the Jansen-Newman Institute in Sydney, on the back of an unrelated fine arts degree. She has since worked as a counsellor for six years. No criticism, though she is quite young to be imparting life wisdom. As the Jansen-Newman brochure says on its first page, "“Experience is a plus with counselling. You don’t have to be a perfect human being.” Interestingly people who have commented on the article have assumed that because her Grad Dip incorporates the word "psychotherapy" that she must be psychologist. Not the case! Training organisations can badge their pieces of paper any way they like. Despite all this, yes, Gabrielle is qualified to be a counsellor.
ReplyDeleteSoren has chosen to defame three people because they concurrently advertise themselves as psychics and counsellors. Back to Google boy wonder! Example 1, Robyn, is a qualified hypnotherapist and mental health nurse (of which counselling is a core competency); example 2, Lorraine, holds a one-year diploma of counselling (of equal standing to that of Gabrielle) and example 3, Kristy V, also holds a one-year Diploma of Counselling. ALL are eminently qualified to offer counselling on a professional basis. The fact that they also offer psychic services is immaterial. People visit psychics when they are troubled and are seeking direction, so it is very important that advice is imparted with sensitivity and wisdom (which is the premise of the news article). The three psychics listed however have all had the moral integrity to formalise their counselling qualifications to ensure that they offer a high standard of care to their clients. In choosing to pluck the names of these three people off the web as supposed examples of shonky practitioners, you have been lazy, ignorant and defamatory. You deserve to start your journalistic career with a lawsuit and I hope you do.