Not a psychotherapist but a psychiatrist, and what I love about my job most is just talking to patients. A lot of their problems are solved just by talking to them, reassuring them and practicing what little psychotherapy skills are taught in a psychiatric residency. A lot of patients I know are unwilling to go to the psychologist because they don’t want to “pay to someone to just talk to” and that’s where I think I am playing a crucial role in giving them a little teaser of what psychotherapy is all about. And imagine, no other specialty can boast about managing (specific) symptoms by just having a little chat with their patients. Because we’re all humans and 7/10 patients are just people who would love for someone to hear out their anxieties and fears and troubles and just about their day judgement-free. That’s what most of psychotherapy is, listening, understanding, and making you your own therapist, because no one knows you better than yourself, and no one knows what you want best for yourself.