Clinical psychology & psychologists and research psychology & psychologists are very different from each other.  The clinicians are loosely psychodynamic, the researchers are tightly scientific. 

Research psychology is an important scientific field of study.  In fact many of the great scientists involved in modern neurobiology are research psychologists.  In contrast clinical psychology, instead of focusing on the brain & how it underpins thinking & feeling, looks more at mind without brain, based on using mind to explore the mind, through talking therapy.  It has been shown that talking therapy, rather than fooling people into feeling better about life in a psychodynamic way, actually generates real physical changes within the brain's circuitry & connection pathways. 

Clinical psychologists vary a lot, from wonderful therapists who have kept up with modern science while still retaining their humanity, to those who know little or nothing about neurobiology or mind science and instead practice their craft in some kind of cultic manner, based on unproven systems of belief.  The smart psychologist wants his or her patients to get what is best for them, being willing when necessary to exploit psychiatric drugs but at the same time wishing to minimize their dosages & side-effects. Hormone therapy facilitates this approach.