“…The results from other studies show that there are countries with younger populations of therapists (e.g. South Korea – 34, China – 37, Argentina – 37 [ 17 ]; [ 12 , 16 ]), but in most of the surveyed countries the age of the therapists is higher (Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, India, New Zealand, [ 14 , 15 , 18 – 20 ]; in some exceeding even 50 years (USA, Canada, UK, Australia; [ 11 , 13 , 14 , 21 ]. The average age above 50 may reflect the fact that in those countries most people enter the profession later in life as a second career, which probably occurs rarely in Poland; for example, in a survey conducted among psychotherapists in the UK, 95 % of respondents had another profession prior to psychotherapy [ 11 ].…”