Table 2.

Demographic information about the participating LPTs

Variable	N=768		Variable	N=768
	n	%		n	%
Type of license			German Federal State
Psychotherapist for children and adolescents	172	22.5	BW	62	8.1
			BY	130	16.9
Psychological psychotherapist	463	60.3	BE	48	6.3
PP also licensed for treating children and adolescents	82	10.7	BB	22	1.4
			HB	59	7.7
Medical psychotherapist	49	6.5	HH	19	2.5
Other	2	0.3	HE	37	4.8
Working in own practice			MV	7	0.9
Own practice	599	78.0	NI	108	14.1
No own practice	165	21.5	NW	171	22.3
Not specified	4	0.5	RP	29	3.8
Working in a clinic/hospital			SL	5	0.7
Clinic/hospital	155	20.2	SN	9	0.3
No clinic/hospital	506	65.9	SH	67	1.2
Not specified	107	13.9	ST	2	8.7
			TH	4	0.5
Approved for public health care insurance			Therapeutic approach
Approved	616	80.2	CBT	479	62.3
Not approved	152	19.8	PDT	241	31.4
Majority of patients			Multiple (including n = 29 with ST)	46	6.0
Under 18 years (<18)	187	24.3	Different	3	0.3
Over 18 years (≥18)	581	75.7
Specific training			Gender
Trauma therapy (incl. EMDR)	311	40.5	Female	564	73.4
Other (e.g. Ego State, ACT, PMR)	359	46.7	Male	203	26.4
None or no specification	98	12.8	Diverse	1	0.2

Abbreviations: LPT – Licenced psychotherapist, CBT – Cognitive Behavioural therapeutic approach, PDT – Psychodynamic therapeutic approach (including psychoanalysis & depth psychology), ST – Systemic therapeutic approach, EMDR – Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, ACT – Acceptance and commitment therapy, PMR – Progressive Muscle Relaxation, German federal states (BW – Baden-Wuerttemberg, BY – Bavaria, BE – Berlin, BB – Brandenburg, HB – Bremen, HH – Hamburg, HE – Hesse, MV – Mecklenburg Western Pomerania, NI – Lower Saxony, NW – North Rhine-Westphalia, RP – Rhineland Palatinate, SL – Saarland, SN – Saxony, SH – Schleswig Holstein, ST – Saxony-Anhalt, TH – Thuringia).