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Counselling psychologist — mid-level, anywhere in Pakistan

Most of the people who write to this site are not acutely unwell.

Mid-level 1+ year experience Online or your own clinic contractor · part time You set your own fee

Why we are open to this role

Most of the people who write to this site are not acutely unwell. They are exhausted, frightened about money, grieving, or living with a family situation they cannot change — and that is counselling work, not psychiatry. It is the single biggest gap between what arrives here and who is available to take it, which is why this role asks for twelve months rather than twenty-four.

یہاں آنے والے زیادہ تر لوگ شدید بیمار نہیں ہوتے — وہ تھکے ہوئے، پریشان یا سوگ میں ہوتے ہیں۔ یہ کونسلنگ کا کام ہے، اور یہی ہماری سب سے بڑی ضرورت ہے۔

What the work is

  • Talking therapy over a course of sessions, in Urdu, English or whichever language you work in.
  • Work with couples and families where that is what the person needs.
  • Holding the boundary between counselling and psychiatric care, and referring on when it is crossed.

What we ask for

  • A year or more of client contact after your degree.
  • Supervision you can name — whose it is, and how often.
  • Honesty about caseload. Four good hours a week beats twelve you cannot sustain.

Qualification: MSc, MS or MPhil in Counselling or Applied Psychology. You must be 18 or over.

The arrangement, the same for every role here. You are self-employed. You set your own fee, and there is no charge to be listed. The patient pays you directly and in full — nothing is deducted and nothing is held by us. For a session we introduced, 10% of that fee comes back to us afterwards, towards the video rooms, the booking system and the running costs; this is a charity project and patients are never charged for anything. You keep your own patients, and nothing is owed on work that did not come through us. Your phone number and your address are never published: enquiries reach you through us. You decide your own hours and how many people you take. We check your qualifications, and your registration where your profession has a register, before anybody is approved — nobody is listed on their own word. We do not supervise your clinical practice and we do not carry your indemnity.

Applying takes about ten minutes and puts you in front of a human, not a filter. We check registration numbers against the council register before replying, so allow a few days. You can see and change your application any time at depression.pk/application.

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