How can children be told to go to a psychologist?

How to explain the therapy process and psychologist to the child?
First of all, it is useful to be honest with your child about this. Convincing by saying that you are going to a different place may damage the therapeutic relationship with the child in the future.
It can be introduced as “playing big sister” to children under 6 years old. However, the concept of “psychologist” can be explained to children older than 6 years. What the psychologist does can be briefly mentioned. It is useful not to use analogies like a doctor or a teacher when describing this. Because the child’s previous relationship with these people may cause prejudice or different perception in the child.
Briefly;
“He is the person who listens to us, supports us in some difficult issues, offers us suggestions so that we can understand you better, tries to understand your feelings and the issues that you have difficulty with, and does this through various activities by talking from time to time, but by playing games, painting, reading books.” can be described as.
“Also, as your mom/dad, we’ve met and chatted with him before. We talked about you and he said he’s looking forward to getting to know you. His name is …… We’ll go there with you. We’ll be with you the whole time there.” It will give your child confidence to state that you know the specialist you went to before.
Before going to therapy, this information should be shared with the child and the child should be informed about when to go. Otherwise, when coming on the road or being told at the door suddenly, children may worry that they will come to a place they never knew and they do not know what will happen. Giving prior notice will help the child prepare himself for the process, and he will have the opportunity to ask you questions if he has any questions.
Finally, you can look at the photos of the place and person you are going to together with your child and encourage him or her to therapy with encouraging conversations. Having an idea about the environment he will enter and the person he will meet will reduce the unknown for your child a little bit.