So I'm looking for a therapist (and that's the best way ever to start out a question on Yahoo!Answers), but I've already been to one who I just didn't mesh with well at all. Is there some way I can find a good therapist without blindly picking names out of the yellow pages?
2007-03-16 06:07:08 · 10 answers · asked by Casey 4 in Health ➔ Mental Health
You could talk to someone you know who went to a therapist. If you trust that person's opinion and like what you hear, it might be better than starting with a list of name from the phone book and hoping one pans out.
If it comes to it, you might talk to someone who knows someone, but obviously this way would be less reliable.
2007-03-16 06:15:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of the time the only way you can tell if it's a GOOD therapist is to meet with them and see what they are like, but here are suggestions that might help you get started:
1) Ask your family doctor if he/she has any suggestions.
2) Call the therapist on the phone. Prepare a list of questions about things that are important to you, like their education, their style, their cost, etc. Then you will have lists from different therapists that you can compare.
3) If you live near a university, call them. Many times the best-trained therapists work at universities or medical schools.
4) Pick a name and search the internet. I found ALOT of stuff out about different therapist this way.
Once you have narrowed your search, then you will have to go and see them.
Unfortunately, alot of it is trial and error, but good luck!
2007-03-16 06:57:17 · answer #2 · answered by riptide_71 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First ask what you want out of a therapist. Then see which ones are under your insurance and some do do a sliding scale if they dont take your insurance. Next start calling around and ask a few questions. As for me my psychiatrist referred me to one. I said that I wanted someone closer to my age and female. Also someone who could help pull everything out of me because I tend to hold everything in. Once you know what you are looking for you can maybe ask a doc or when you call ask about the person or actually talk to them if you can.
2007-03-16 06:20:14 · answer #3 · answered by b 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
regularly i don't believe of it is going to definitely count number even if the therapist is male or woman. those with social phobia frequently do no longer have a difficulty with depending situations, they have issues assembly people they do no longer be conscious of and who've no reason to communicate with them. a woman therapist for a guy should be an benefit because she will be in a position to describe with more advantageous accuracy how women individuals experience and how you should act and reply. strong success!
2016-11-26 00:02:24 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Coming from someone who has hired and fired at least 30...
I try and find someone who is actually smarter than I am... and wont let me get away with anything and can counter my negative tendencies and outsmart me.
Hence all the hiring and firing.
I neither have one or need one anymore as a result of figuring out that self deception is at the root of your need for someone else to sort you out to begin with.
Basically YOU are the best therapist you can find if you are honest with yourself and your condition and if you allow yourself to be who and what you are, lest all of the unimportant opinions of everyone else around you...
I think "Good" and "Therapist." Is an Oxymoron.
2007-03-16 06:19:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yellow pages, does that mean your in Australia?
I'm in Perth, Anyway some of the government funded church based counselling services are really good, better than psychs. Church based meaning they call themselves St Mary's care centre, or something like that, it doesn't mean you have to go to church. Try cenrelink they'll set you up or advise you on some services available. The only problem i had was the counsellor was too good and i ended up really depending on her and i kind of loved her in a way cause she made me feel so positive and good, but then she had to stop the sessions and I went into a gloomy state of depression
2007-03-16 06:40:05 · answer #6 · answered by nightdreamer 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you know anyone else was ever or is in your situation then ask if they can refere you to anyone they know.
If not it is a phone book sort of guess and if you are planning on trying before you buy, your first meeting doesn't have to be you dumping all your guts on the floor if it turns out to be a bad fit. Ask them if they can describe themselves a little and what they work best in; grief, dependancy, drugs, etc.
2007-03-16 06:13:04 · answer #7 · answered by Amy K 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
look up info from the college or association of psychiatrists / social workers / psychologists / for your state
find out the ones that have been around a long time
I saw a social worker that threatened physical violence on me for comming off my medication last summer - the paint on her degree had not yet dried.
2007-03-16 06:38:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I went to a center who kept sending me to different places and of course charging me and my insurance. I was out $350 out of pocket and I called to cancel everything because they did not give me one bit of advice! It seemed they just wanted $$$ by making all these appointments with different people. It felt like a scam. I get now really good advice from my priest and going to mass.
2007-03-16 06:17:13 · answer #9 · answered by Karen 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No. Going blind is the only way.
http://www.cchr.org/index.cfm/8771
Just make sure you don't see a psychiatrist who will want to medicate you for life.
2007-03-16 06:12:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋