Variety of How to Become a Occupational Therapist Matters
Somehow, therapy has been made feminine. If you want a male therapist, you have to really look hard. Men who do succeed in finding a male therapist to suit them, come away feeling completely differently about what is possible with therapy today – in a way they never remember with women therapists who have occupational therapy programs.
If Frasier and Nyles were in business today, they would really be in demand with their “I’m listening” and “Let’s get better”. The process of feminization in mental health that began perhaps 30 years ago, is almost complete today with existing occupational therapy programs. Back in the 70s, one out of two Masters degrees in psychology were given to women; now, it’s up to four out of five.
When it comes to social work, the balance is even more skewed – nine out of ten are women. Many don’t even apply for psychology programs in college. If you’re a man, and you want to work in a field where you have no competition when it comes to dating your colleagues, mental health should be for you. Go to any therapists’ conference, and you’ll be perhaps the only man in the entire auditorium.

