{"id":15202,"date":"2020-02-24T11:02:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T10:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praxisschaefer.designwerk-kussmaul.de\/information-on-the-waiting-time\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T00:36:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T22:36:26","slug":"information-on-the-waiting-time","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/praxisschaefer.de\/en\/for-patients\/information-on-the-waiting-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Information on waiting time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column el_align=&#8221;center&#8221;]<div id=\"1582292861772-e00ba7a9-d555\" class=\"dt-sc-empty-space\"><\/div><div class='dt-sc-title script-with-sub-title '><h2><\/h2><h3>Information on waiting time<\/h3><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The national statistics show that patients have to wait at least three months for an initial consultation with a psychotherapist, but usually longer. This is particularly true in rural regions. Once you have found a psychotherapy space, three more months will pass between the initial diagnostic consultation and the start of treatment.<\/p>\n<p>This is not always easy to understand. Therefore we give you a brief insight into the reasons and background to this problem: How do these waiting times come about?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/praxisschaefer.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180411_bptk_studie_wartezeiten_2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Waiting times for psychotherapy <\/a>(this study is only available in German)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column el_align=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The national statistics show that patients have to wait at least three months for an initial consultation with a psychotherapist, but usually longer. This is particularly true in rural regions. 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This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":15427,"menu_order":39,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15202","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.4 (Yoast SEO v22.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Information on waiting time - Sabine Sch\u00e4fer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/praxisschaefer.de\/en\/for-patients\/information-on-the-waiting-time\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Information on waiting time\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[vc_row][vc_column el_align=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The national statistics show that patients have to wait at least three months for an initial consultation with a psychotherapist, but usually longer. 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