therapist

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ther‧a‧pist/ˈθerəpəst, ˈθerəpɪst/ noun [COUNTABLE]
someone who has been trained to give a particular form of treatment for physical or mental illness:
　 ▪ a speech therapist
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THESAURUS
a doctor who treats mental illness
▪psychiatrist /saɪˈkaɪətrəst, saɪˈkaɪətrɪst $ sə-/ a doctor who is trained to treat people with mental illnesses :
　 ▪ In order to become a psychiatrist, you first need a medical degree.
▪psychologist /saɪˈkɒlədʒəst, saɪˈkɒlədʒɪst $ -ˈkɑː-/ a scientist who studies and is trained in psychology (=the study of the mind) :
　 ▪ Many psychologists believe that aggression is a learned behaviour.
▪shrink informal a humorous word for a psychiatrist
▪therapist a trained person whose job is to help people with their emotional problems, especially by talking to them and asking them to talk about their feelings

noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
occupational therapist
physical therapist
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
occupational
▪ There are more occupational therapists, and the time that they are taking is also being reduced.
▪ An occupational therapist can help with motor or sensory reactivity and processing difficulties.
▪ The comparison of results in groups D and E highlights the important assessment role of occupational therapists as cited by other workers.
▪ An occupational therapist helped her choose a keyboard as part of an overhaul of her work station and typing posture.
▪ His wife gave up a £20,000-a-year job as an occupational therapist to look after their child, now aged four.
▪ Medina also works for an occupational therapist in Bethesda as an equipment technician, according to court papers.
▪ A physiotherapist and occupational therapist are attached.
▪ Each has an occupational therapist, a speech and language therapist and a physical therapist, and Melanie has two nurses.
physical
▪ Their parents are philosophy professors and learning-disabilities therapists and guidance counsellors and physical therapists.
▪ Physical therapy and the physical therapist came to be the source and symbol of healing for patients.
▪ He walked again, and met and married Phyllis Holden, a physical therapist.
▪ Nurses and physical therapists stretched and pulled, rolled and pounded.
▪ Under the supervision of physical therapist Clive Brewster, Johnson also said he lost about eight pounds during his workouts.
▪ Each has an occupational therapist, a speech and language therapist and a physical therapist, and Melanie has two nurses.
▪ In especially difficult or puzzling cases, a more specialized evaluation may be conducted by an occupational or physical therapist.
NOUN
family
▪ Feminists, for example, are highly critical of some family therapists.
▪ How fitting for so many, in the opinion of Atlanta psychiatrist and family therapist Frank Pittman.
▪ Many family therapists would say probably not.
▪ But family therapists are also aware how profoundly these swarms of narratives can affect what we see and therefore how we live.
▪ An aura of holiness and specialness also surrounds stories of the birth and early childhood of psychoanalyst and family therapist Craig Fouassis.
massage
▪ With more than 60 part-time massage therapists, there is a wide range of body work available.
▪ There are two safe ways to find a good massage therapist: 1.
speech
▪ If there is a speech therapist treating the client with whom one can discuss the problem, that can be very helpful.
▪ They flee to a speech therapist.
▪ My sons have been booked in to see a speech therapist.
▪ The speech therapist tells them, in effect, to calm down and stop harping on it and it will go away.
▪ If necessary, a speech therapist may be called on as well.
▪ The speech therapist has predicted whatever it was would go away, and it did.
▪ These results highlight deficits in the use of speech therapists in their assessment and treatment capacities.
▪ Referrals come from the health authority whose speech therapists undertake assessments of students and often team-teach with adult education tutors.
VERB
help
▪ It also helps the therapist identify antecedents, prominent physical symptoms, and catastrophic thoughts.
▪ One of our friends with the same type of arthritis has been helped by an occupational therapist.
see
▪ My sons have been booked in to see a speech therapist.
▪ She is still seeing a therapist.
▪ I went to see my therapist and he kept talking about the bank manager.
▪ Have you seen how some therapists treat their patients?
▪ He sees a therapist once a week at a cost of £26 an hour.
▪ I have been seeing my therapist since I was 13.
▪ Perhaps it's enough to be Scarlet, who has to see a therapist and dreams only of early retirement and death.
▪ Ann Landers always suggests to see your clergy or therapist.
train
▪ And in some places it has become fashionable, with the aid of a trained therapist, to explore imagined past lives.
▪ It takes a trained and sensitive therapist to cue in to your personal needs.
work
▪ She worked as an occupational therapist and listed gardening and walking as her hobbies.
▪ She had been sheltered from prejudice and injustice by her family until she went to work as a child therapist.
▪ I want to work with a therapist with this point of view, as I feel that it definitely applies to me.
▪ Medina also works for an occupational therapist in Bethesda as an equipment technician, according to court papers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a sex therapist
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I decided to change our therapist.
▪ I did not learn much about remedial therapists but this may reflect the state of knowledge rather than any criticism of the author.
▪ Individual therapists tend to approach the art in their own unique way.
▪ On Thursday I talk to my therapist.
▪ The therapist who will listen to your problems and give you a good perm is bound to avoid the dole.
▪ This is particularly true of the therapist who works with people in the dying mode.
▪ Treatment Session one Liz came back accompanied by her parents, but wanting to speak to the therapist on her own first.