Dear Midnight:

Regarding my ex therapist in California: he continued his treatment of me in between sessions via phone and email because I saw him primarily in person and he was generous that way. He will not treat a person who he does not see in-person. He is a very ethical person and will not operate unethically.

Also, I am in no way here to promote his business, to suggest people attend therapy with him. I told you about his work only so to give you an alternative idea regarding what is possible for a therapist to be. My sharing about how he treated me can give you information you can use so to better evaluate a future therapist!

You wrote last: ” But he never openly said it was OCD or ROCD.”- this is a point I made before: it is important to me that a therapist is open, does say things openly, clearly, directly and not vaguely. My goodness, how can you make progress in vagueness. The light, so to speak, in the therapy process should be ON. The therapist should turn on the light, not keep it off via vagueness and double talk.

anita