About the job:
As a Psychomotor Therapist, you promote the physical health and personal development of people. You work with them to identify any emotional or physical problems in their past. You then train, educate and guide them on how to overcome these problems and achieve overall health of body and mind.
As a Psychomotor Therapist, you will have to:
- Remain patient and emotionally detached from your patients
- Set clear expectations from the beginning about the results of therapy
- Ensure that your patients follow up with the therapy plan; otherwise, they won't improve
As a Psychomotor Therapist, you will get to:
- Help your patients function better
- Help your patients express themselves in a richer way
- 40-50 hours per week
- 10-20% evenings & weekends
As a psychomotor therapist, you generally work standard hours but you might work extra hours on weekends and in the evenings.
Are you the right fit?
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Psychology
- Life Sciences
- Understanding what you hear
- Expressing yourself verbally
- Problem Sensitivity
- Fluency of ideas
- Reasoning & Problem Solving
Will you make money?
Education stuff:
- You typically need a Bachelor’s degree in Psychomotor Therapy to start this career. You can then specialize in a specific area such as Art Therapy by gaining a Master’s degree in that area.
Video Description
Biography
There are lots of options now for qualifying in Psychomotor Therapy, several universities provide interesting specializations, and Carla’s passion motivated her to create the Syndicate of Psychomotor Therapists, which means that Psychomotor Therapy is now a recognized profession in Lebanon. Once qualified, there are so many different job options working with people of all ages, and Carla shows us a range of interesting cases and techniques she uses to treat them.