Dr. Berndt also sees families and couples . Psychotherapy is not for the faint hearted. Psychotherapy explores your inner workings, dealving deep inside you, the last frontier. Working with a therapist, who supports you on the quest, you learn new patterns of behaviors, find new solutions or differnt roles, solve problems and develop skills and good habits. In some kinds of therapy you might even change your personality.
Psychiatrists have a medical background and graduate from medical school.
Psychiatrists are the best trained at finding medical problems that may masquerade as behavioral and emotional disorders. Typically their training is about 7 years after a Bachleor's Degree, and most of it is in either understanding human behavior, cognitions, beliefs, etc. As such they are typically the most thoroghly trained in psychotherapy. They are also the only profession trained to adminsiter psychological tests. Licensed Clinical Social Workers are often as well or better trained in psychotherapy than most psychiatrists.