Psychiatrist is MD, a physician.
Psychologist (clinical) is PsyD (see Jordan Peterson).
Therapist is often social worker.
Psychiatrists can prescribe meds and offer non-pharmaceutical therapy.
Psychologists offer non pharmaceutical therapy.
Social workers can offer non pharmaceutical therapy, but for psychological issues I think you would want an expert like a psychiatrist or a psychologist.
I said they offer non pharmaceutical therapy aka behavioral or psychotherapy. So psychiatrists can prescribe meds + everything from below. Psychologists everything except meds.
Look up local “therapists” and I think you will be surprised how many have social work background and how few are psychology background. Surprised me in the past and I always felt it was somewhat obscured in their bio. I was always surprised when I looked it up.
I think if I was coping with major trauma like that I would prefer a psychologist.
Psychiatrist is MD, a physician. Psychologist (clinical) is PsyD (see Jordan Peterson). Therapist is often social worker.
Psychiatrists can prescribe meds and offer non-pharmaceutical therapy. Psychologists offer non pharmaceutical therapy. Social workers can offer non pharmaceutical therapy, but for psychological issues I think you would want an expert like a psychiatrist or a psychologist.
I said they offer non pharmaceutical therapy aka behavioral or psychotherapy. So psychiatrists can prescribe meds + everything from below. Psychologists everything except meds.
Look up local “therapists” and I think you will be surprised how many have social work background and how few are psychology background. Surprised me in the past and I always felt it was somewhat obscured in their bio. I was always surprised when I looked it up.
I think if I was coping with major trauma like that I would prefer a psychologist.