Are there psychotherapists for programmers?

Question

Personnel Management

Are there specialists who help programmers with professional burnout? Which can help a person with problems with development, with a plug in development, with a desire to work. It’s just that a person can decide for himself that he doesn’t want to learn anything, he’s not interested in this or that, that “he’s not given” to be a programmer and make all sorts of decisions that are detrimental to his career or personality, but in fact he just needed someone anything to talk. But you won’t talk with colleagues about your failures and failures in study or work, they can also affect the career of a suffering person, draw some conclusions of their own and, for example, lose the desire to work with this person, trust him with some tasks . Someone is needed who will understand the sufferer, i.e. exactly what he is talking about for example, what gnaws at him in javascript, what is the problem with it, why does it not work, etc. But at the same time, so that this specialist does not affect a person’s career.
The issue of professional burnout is already very complicated, and for programmers it is even more difficult, as it seems to me. The field of activity is not simple, it is also heavily loaded. I know a lot of examples when quite experienced people just gave up programming and went into farming and other professional activities. Because of something that they were just tired of, they were just fed up with something)) What if they could just talk to someone who, like a psychologist, would approach the problem and direct the person on the right path.
The idea of ​​"a psychologist for a programmer" seems to be interesting. And it seems to me that it has already been implemented in some super large companies, such as Epam, Accenture, etc. Have you come across such an implementation by psychologists?
PS: I'm not talking about people who are just entering the profession - if it doesn't work, then you shouldn't push. I'm talking about people who are already experienced, respected, have been working in the company for a long time and bring benefits. But then you look at the work of this specialist and you see that he is "surrendering", fading away before our eyes. I'm talking about the necessary frames.

Answer 1

"For programmers" hardly exist, at least in the form in which you imagine. I'm talking about

for example, what gnaws at him in javascript, what is the gag, why does it not work

Based on this logic (if I correctly grasped the course of your thoughts), the psychotherapist not only needs to be competent in psychology, but also to be a high-class programmer in all areas and in all languages ​​in order to understand the pains and "gags" of all his patients, but this, as you can see, is impossible.
Many large companies in the west have full-time psychologists who are paid to help company employees in difficult times, including dealing with burnout. Your mistake, in my opinion, is that you, probably, being a programmer, look at the problem through the prism of your profession and think that a special approach and immersion in the profession are needed here. However, in order to understand the specifics of the problems, one does not need to be competent in programming, all of our "unwillingness to learn something new" and other depressions are easily classified at a higher level, which allows psychologists to solve the problem regardless of who is in front of them - a programmer, an accountant or a football player.
The issue of professional burnout is especially acute for programmers - here I agree, the specifics are this. But this does not mean that for treatment you need to be immersed in IT from head to toe. It will not be difficult for a highly qualified psychotherapist to study the features of professional burnout of programmers from A to Z in a week or two, and for this he does not need to know javascript at all)

Answer 2

Are there specialists who help programmers with professional burnout?

It does not depend on the profession.
But from a company. Which will or will not hire such a staff.
Or from the programmer himself, who will or will not go to a specialist for his hard-earned money.
Professional burnout can happen to anyone.
I've met this with photographers.

Answer 3

Someone is needed who will understand the sufferer, i.e. what he is talking about, specifically, for example, what gnaws at him in javascript, what is the plug, why does it not work, etc. But at the same time, so that this specialist does not affect a person’s career.

Usually this is a bartender with at least 5 years of experience in a good catering establishment.
Why do you think they did something wrong? There is nothing good in programming, except for the salary. Everything else is just cons or an attempt to justify oneself. It is a pity that you begin to understand this only with experience 10+
In such situations, the best way than dismissal has not yet been invented. What if a person dreamed of working as a welder as a child, but was sucked into the office swamp? A good welder does not get much less than a good programmer.
How do you imagine? The burned-out programmer Vasya came to a corporate psychologist, and then he explained to Vasya's boss why Vasya considers him an asshole? Well, that's...

Answer 4

Exist!
I was faced with the fact that I could not work, there was apathy, depression. I couldn’t quit my job: you won’t find such a salary in any “interesting” job anymore. I worked with a psychologist for a couple of sessions and it became easier ... Now, if it “covers”, I also communicate for prevention ... the cart @KseniaK2626 is a specialist in IT psychology

Answer 5

In large companies, team leaders can act as such psychologists, but simply as a narrow specialization - there is no such thing.