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Would it be legal to operate as a psychotherapist in a church
hall, synagogue or Mosque?
DIR By: Slavka
Date: May 22, 2018, 7:22 am
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That's quite an interesting question.
Church halls etc. are often used for various activities (social
clubs, coffee mornings for pensioners, parent meeting groups
etc.) so I don't necessarily see how it would be illegal to hire
out a room from there if there was such an option. It could be a
way for the Church, synagogue etc. to make some money towards
their functioning. Having said that, it would probably attract
clients from that particular faith only and if I advertised on
my site that I also do therapy from such a place, it could
potentially put off others.
Would I do it though?
Definitely no.
Is it illegal?
I don't think so but I am happy to be corrected.
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Re: Would it be legal to operate as a psychotherapist in a
church hall, synagogue or Mosque?
DIR By: VicTS
Date: May 23, 2018, 4:13 am
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Yes, I thought it was an interesting too, having had colleagues
who are christian counselors.
I felt that it could be considered discriminatory to clients who
were not of that faith for the therapy to be offered from a
place of worship. This implies heavily that the therapy will be
from the religious modality, therefore discriminating against
others. However, if the therapy was advertised as religious
therapy from the corresponding religious place of worship then I
felt that this could be considered under special circumstances.
Therefore I felt that it could be illegal under discriminatory
basis to operate as a Psychotherapist in a Church Hall
(Christian), Synagogue (Jewish) or Mosque (Islam).
I also would not do it myself, however I have considered working
in a building that also holds meetings for the local Quaker
Group, I felt that this was not linked because the building is a
community and not a religious one.
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Re: Would it be legal to operate as a psychotherapist in a
church hall, synagogue or Mosque?
DIR By: Slavka
Date: May 23, 2018, 6:55 am
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I've also seen job adverts for counsellors (and support workers)
from a Christian Charity; there was a condition that the person
working there is a practising Christian.
However, my undergrad psychology research was done for a
Christian Charity who provided one to one counselling for post
natal depression. They were flooded with requests and NHS/GP
kept referring women to them but they had no extra funding. So
they came up with an idea for a brief group therapy. I was the
researcher hired to see if group therapy works (they tried to
offer therapy to as many as they could this way). At no point
Christianity or faith came up during the sessions. But my
understanding was that the therapist conducting the therapy
would have to fulfill the criteria of a practising one. But most
women who attended the therapy were non-religious. And they
advertised as a Christian Charity. So it definitely wasn't
discriminatory in this sense.
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