Per chi volesse discutere con maggior cognizione di causa sul sistema anglosassone ecco quanto c'è nel web inglese....
Psychotherapy
What's the difference between a psychotherapist and a counsellor?
In practice, very little: some practitioners may choose to call themselves counsellors, while others - even with identical qualifications - may call themselves psychotherapists.
Traditionally, people offering short-term help to patients or clients - especially those in the voluntary sector - tended to call themselves counsellors, while people who had trained on a psychotherapy course, lasting at least two years, would call themselves psychotherapists. But nowadays this distinction seems to have blurred.
Quite apart from anything else, many psychotherapists also call themselves counsellors.
One reason for this is that they think the public find 'counselling' a more understandable and less frightening term than 'psychotherapy'.
Another reason is that when practitioners pay to put themselves into a telephone directory, they are aware that many potential clients will start by looking up 'counsellors' because it comes before 'psychotherapists' alphabetically. So they put their advert into the counselling section.
Sometimes therapists advertise in both the counselling and psychotherapy sections. And if they also have a qualification in hypnosis they often put themselves into the hypnosis section, too. So one therapist can be listed under all three headings. Confusing, isn't it?
The British Association for Couselling and Psychotherapy
Altre info anche al link
BACP - The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
e, naturalmente, al sito della British Psychological Society
The British Psychological Society
Il titolo "psicologo" in UK non è protetto e non lo è neanche in Germania. In Germania eiste un Ordine degli Psicoterapeuti, ma non degli Psicologi. In UK mi pare di capire che non c'è nè l'uno nè l'altro e che dal 2001 la British Psychological Society ha istituito un Registro dei "Chartered Psychologists" senza però valore legale. Confesso che non ho avuto tempo per leggermi proprio tutto a questo proposito, ma vi passo i links per chi volesse approfondire.
Comunque, per quel che ho potuto vedere, mi pare che la legislazione che protegge la nostra professione in Italia sia la migliore e la più avanzata.