As a Psychotherapist, you will need to master following:

• accept own accountability
• advise on healthcare users' informed consent
• apply context specific clinical competences
• comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
• conceptualise healthcare user’s needs
• conclude the psychotherapeutic relationship
• conditions for the professional practice of psychotherapy
• conduct psychotherapy risk assessments
• contribute to continuity of health care
• decide upon a psychotherapeutic approach
• discuss the end point of therapeutic intervention
• disorders affecting self-awareness
• encourage healthcare user's self-monitoring
• ensure safety of healthcare users
• evaluate practice in psychotherapy
• formulate a case conceptualisation model for therapy
• handle patient trauma
• historic development of psychotherapeutic schools
• history of patient's psychotherapeutic problems
• identify mental health issues
• keep up with current trends in psychotherapy
• maintain personal development in psychotherapy
• manage psychotherapeutic relationships
• monitor therapeutic progress
• organise relapse prevention
• perform therapy sessions
• promote mental health
• promote psycho-social education
• provide a psychotherapeutic environment
• provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
• psycho-social forms of intervention
• psychopathology
• psychopharmacology
• psychosomatics
• record the outcome of psychotherapy
• respond to healthcare users' extreme emotions
• support patients to understand their conditions
• therapy in health care
• use clinical assessment techniques
• use e-health and mobile health technologies
• use psychotherapeutic interventions
• use techniques to increase patients' motivation
• work on psychosomatic issues
• work with healthcare users under medication
• work with patterns of psychological behaviour

More generally, a psychotherapist is also versed in:

• adhere to organisational guidelines
• communicate in healthcare
• comply with legislation related to health care
• counsel clients
• develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
• empathise with the healthcare user
• follow clinical guidelines
• health care occupation-specific ethics
• interact with healthcare users
• listen actively
• manage healthcare users' data
• manage personal professional development
• personality development theories
• psychiatric disorders
• psychiatry
• psychological diagnostics
• psychological theories
• psychology
• respond to changing situations in health care
• scientific research methodology
• supervision of persons
• theories of personality
• work in a multicultural environment in health care

It also helps to know the following:

• apply caseload management
• apply hypno-psychotherapy
• apply psychoanalysis
• apply systemic therapy
• collaborate to discuss treatment plans in psychotherapy
• diagnose mental disorders
• employ cognitive behaviour treatment techniques
• help healthcare users develop social perceptiveness
• promote inclusion
• psychoanalysis
• psychomotor therapy
• work in multidisciplinary health teams
• work on the effects of abuse
• work with healthcare users' social network
• apply organisational techniques
• apply systemic design thinking
• deal with emergency care situations
• educate on the prevention of illness
• ensure proper appointment administration
• geriatrics
• inform policy makers on health-related challenges
• paediatrics
• pedagogy
• provide health education
• record healthcare users' billing information
• rehabilitation
• use foreign languages for health-related research
• use foreign languages in patient care