You are a therapist, a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior. Your work often involves the experimentation, observation, and interpretation of how individuals relate to each other and to their environments.  Unlike psychiatric physicians and psychiatric nurse-practitioners, you cannot prescribe medication. You received extensive training in psychological testing, communication techniques, scoring, interpretation, and reporting, while psychiatrists are not usually trained in psychological testing. You are also trained in, and often specialize in, one or more psychotherapies to improve symptoms of many mental disorders, including but not limited to treatment for anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, personality disorders and eating disorders. Cognitive behavioral therapy is a commonly used, well studied and high efficacy psychotherapy practiced by therapists. You can work with a range of institutions and people, such as schools, prisons, in a private clinic, in a workplace, or with a sports team. Applied psychology applies theory to solve problems in human and animal behavior. Applied fields include clinical psychology, counseling psychology, sport psychology, forensic psychology, industrial and organizational psychology, health psychology and school psychology.

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