Dear Mimi:

Good to read from you again!

You wrote about some of the therapists you encountered: “I don’t understand why they get licenses to do their jobs”- because universities need money to operate, so they are interested in getting a certain number of students to keep them operating. They are not about to … investigate who these students are, they  need the money, and the universities work with the licensing agencies to make sure their students will qualify for the certification.

“They should be checked out  more thoroughly”- by whom? Problem is there aren’t that many psychotherapists that are that good.

And so, we, clients have to check them out ourselves, by scheduling, hopefully a free session and in that session interview the therapist. A certificate is clearly not enough. So we have to ask questions. If I was you, I would ask questions about what the therapist believes, so to see if there is a fit between her/ his beliefs and  yours, to start with.

Can you think of one or a few basic beliefs you have about people  and life that you need a therapist to believe the same,  or  very close to what you believe?

anita