Summary: In a short question and answer video, Andy answers what he thinks about psychiatric medication. He says it makes no difference to the techniques he uses and that he does not discuss medication with clients, although he will speak with a prescribing psychiatrist. He says coaches who are not prescribers should not advise on medication, and encourages practitioners to become well informed about the medications their clients take.
Tag: medication, psychiatric meds, psychiatry
Author: Andrew T. Austin
Andrew T. Austin is a therapist, trainer and author. He qualified as a registered general nurse in 1992, with clinical experience that included accident and emergency (A&E) and neurosurgery, and went on to train in Ericksonian hypnotherapy, NLP (to trainer level) and Provocative Therapy with Frank Farrelly. He developed Integral Eye Movement Therapy Technique (IEMT), formalised as a training in 2008, and Metaphors of Movement. Both are included in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Counseling and Psychotherapy (2015). He is the author of The Rainbow Machine: Tales from a Neurolinguist's Journal, prefaced and edited by Steve Andreas and published by Real People Press.