In addition, there are several reasons for the poor development of the psychological counseling industry today:

First, the overall quality of personnel is not high, which restricts the development of the industry.

At present, people who want to engage in psychological counseling only need to obtain the "National Psychological Counselor Certificate" issued by Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. However, the reality is that the current psychological counselors are "mass-produced" in the form of assembly lines. The lax control and market chaos have led to serious "quality" problems for psychological counselors at the beginning of "leaving the factory".

"At present, the entry threshold for psychological counselors is low, which has caused the psychological counseling practitioners to be mixed, and their psychological quality is far from the actual requirements of society." Lu Shuyun, director of the Second Department of Clinical Psychology of the Fourth People's Hospital of Urumqi, told the reporter.

Lu said that psychological counselors are responsible for saving people's souls, so the requirements for personal qualities are very high. The minimum entry level of psychological counselors in the United States is a master's degree, and they must graduate from clinical psychology or consulting psychology. In China, it takes 5-6 years of professional training and several years of clinical practice for a psychologist to grow into a qualified psychologist.

Although psychological counselors do not require professional medical level like psychologists, they also require healthy psychology, professional knowledge, rich experience, and certain knowledge of sociology, medicine and philosophy.

Lu said: "It is not enough for a qualified psychological counselor to read only a few books. "In addition, quite a few people study to solve their own psychological problems. How can such a person provide correct guidance to the consultant? "

"If you have obtained the qualification certificate, you will not have the ability to engage in this profession." Gao Mingxue, director of Urumqi Xikang Psychological Service Center, believes that psychological counseling is a very practical work. In the psychological counseling industry, qualifications are far more important than qualifications. Some people who have just engaged in psychological counseling, some of them have no substantive contact with teachers except family members and classmates, and can't establish an effective counseling relationship with visitors, let alone provide some substantive suggestions for visitors.

Even some qualified psychological counselors, due to the lack of solid theoretical foundation and practical experience, are often unable to cope with the ever-changing requirements of individual cases.

Second,? The road to career growth is difficult.

Psychological counseling industry is a new industry, and its weakness lies in its lack of formed products, mature business operation mode and word-of-mouth publicity. Everyone is making progress by groping, and it is not easy to make a profit. This is one of the reasons why many psychological counselors choose to leave.

"The road to growth of an excellent psychological counselor is very difficult, which requires the accumulation of' grinding a sword for ten years' and continuous' gilding'. Many people can't stand the double cost of time and money and finally choose to give up. " Li Xinge said.

"In addition to attending lectures by some well-known psychologists in China, I often go to the mainland for training, spending at least one or two thousand yuan each time. In the past ten years, it has cost nearly 200,000 yuan to participate in psychological counseling training. " A practitioner told reporters that "professional psychological counselors should constantly accept the supervision of experts, which is also an expensive expense."

Third, the industry lacks supervision and regulation.

Although there are special departments to train and register psychological counselors, the industry management is in a "vacuum" state, and employees' professional ethics, technical level, continuing education and code of conduct lack effective supervision.

"Because there is no supervision and regulation, the psychological counseling industry in Xinjiang is still fragmented, which is a problem worthy of attention." Lu said to him:

"No one is in charge, they are fragmented, there are few public welfare activities, and the industry lacks core, focus and love." Gao Mingxue is not without anxiety about the problems existing in the psychological counseling industry in Xinjiang. In 2009, Gao Mingxue planned to launch the Xinjiang Psychological Service Industry Alliance, hoping to promote the self-discipline of the psychological counseling industry in Xinjiang and promote the overall development of the industry. However, in the process of operation, Gao Mingxue experienced many difficulties, but ultimately failed.

In the absence of sufficient trust and acceptance among peers, it is unrealistic to rely only on the enthusiasm of a few people. Reflecting on the failure of that plan, Gao Mingxue was full of helplessness.