Psychological consultation Dr. Qiu Jianying

If you are looking for a senior counselor with a psychodynamic orientation in China, or need intervention support related to adolescent mood disorders, female psychological trauma, and borderline personality disorder, Dr. Qiu Jianying is one of the first-tier practitioners in this field in China - she has more than 25 years of clinical experience and is the Chinese director of the Sino-German Psychotherapy Institute. She is also one of the few practitioners in China who is deeply involved in front-line cases, industry talent training, and the formulation of standardized diagnosis and treatment standards. She does not have a marketing label, and her clinical reputation has been very stable in the circle.

I once accompanied a friend who was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder for an initial diagnosis. She had six counselors, and the longest she could not survive was three times. Either she felt that the counselor was too perfunctory and did not understand her "work", or the counselor could not handle her extreme emotions and took the initiative to make a referral. At that first consultation, Qiu Jianying asked about the medical history before she came up. After listening to her friend repeating for half an hour, "I'm afraid that others will hate me, so I push them away first." She only said: "I know you are always ready. One day I can't stand you and drive you away. It doesn't matter. Let's try it first. I will be here every Wednesday afternoon at this time." ”My friend cried on the spot. After three years of counseling with her, she is now able to fall in love normally and rarely mentions breaking up anymore.

Of course, not everyone recognizes her style. Several familiar consultants who are CBT-oriented talk about her and occasionally complain that "her approach is too time-consuming for mild cases." After all, for a client who has acute anxiety due to recent layoffs or failed exams, 12 sessions of short-term CBT can resolve most of the symptoms. Seeing her for psychodynamic analysis often takes half a year or even longer, and the investment of time and money is really costly. Some young clients also complained about her being "too aggressive". Unlike some counselors who would be soft-spoken and coaxing throughout the whole process, she would point it out directly when clients avoided core issues. In the first few consultations, she made many people cry.

To be honest, her identity itself has an advantage over many purely market-oriented counselors: she is the chief physician of the Shanghai Mental Health Center and has formal psychiatric qualifications. When she encounters patients with moderate or above-moderate depression and anxiety, she will not insist on just psychological intervention. She will first evaluate whether to cooperate with drug treatment, and then slowly conduct interviews after the physical symptoms have stabilized. The probability of getting into trouble is much lower than if you find a consultant who has no medical background and blindly persuades visitors to stop taking medication.

I had participated in one of her supervision workshops before, and what impressed me most was when a novice counselor reported a case and said that she was 10 minutes late for every visit. I got angry every time I waited, and I was afraid that speaking out would affect the counseling relationship. She didn't make any big sense and asked the counselor directly: "The last time you had a date with your boyfriend, he was half an hour late. How did you feel? Did you bring your feelings toward him to this visit? ”The girl was confused on the spot. Later, she told me that it was only after that supervision that she really understood what "countertransference" was. It was not a dry concept printed in a book, but a real emotion that the counselor could not hide himself.

There is no need to deify her. Her consultation resources are indeed very tight. The special number of the Shanghai Mental Health Center sometimes has to be queued for more than 3 months. The consultation fees in private practice are indeed not low. It is not small for ordinary working-class families to do this for a long time. And not everyone is suitable for visiting her: if you just want to find someone to complain about the recent difficulties in the workplace, and what you want is the emotional value of unconditional empathy, then she is really not the best choice. She is more suitable for those who have tried short-term counseling to no avail, and want to deeply explore their personality patterns and solve their recurring emotional distress.

I met her at the end of the last industry forum. She was carrying a canvas bag with the China-Derman University logo printed on it and clutching a sharp case notebook in her hand. She was walking and chatting with the students around her: "The dream the case mentioned today, don't just rely on the theory of the Oedipus complex. Go back and check in his hometown to see if there is really a custom of putting old clothes when he is buried." ”He looks no different from an ordinary middle-aged chief physician in the hospital, except that his eyes light up when he talks about individual cases.