I'm picking a therapist.
Would anyone care to help?
I'm all ready full of OCD and anxiety, now I have to choose a therapist from a list, suggested by distance from my home, acquired from my insurance company. There was no asking what I might need counseled in or anything...I guess I get the generic form.
It's comical.
First I started with the names...
Do they sound like therapists?
Then I google.
I google the letters after their names, their names, and then judge everything about them by their website content.
I mean, that seems logical, right?
how else do you do it?
Of the 6 choices, one was quickly eliminated because they had no website.
This led me to believe they either were ancient with no ability for online presence, or that they were attacked by one of the people they were counseling and decided to not be present in the manner that they would be easy to locate. There were no pictures or addresses so I decided to scratch that one of the list...I didn't want to be murdered by accident....ya know just trying to get to and from the building. I watch crime TV....I'm not dumb. So, with that said.... One down.
This dreamboat was not on my list...
I would not pick him anyway, I couldn't imagine telling him about my issues and him looking at me like that....nope. Nothing would get solved, it would be worse, way, way worse.
The other five I sorted by navigating the reviews and lists of "therapies" they can entertain/cure me with.
First off: the name Jilab... I can't even, then her most respected therapy is dance and movement therapy. I'd have to be effin crazy to drag my anxiety ridden self into marriage counseling and be treated with 45 minutes of "dance / movement" therapy!
Unless I am doing this :
I don't think I can entertain the thought of dance therapy, and to be honest, today in boxing class I couldn't even figure out my left hook from my right hook, so this is probably out.
Oh wait she also has hypnotherapy and aroma therapy for the soul.
no, no and another no....
badd-a-boom
OFF THE LIST!!!
That left me with a therapist who looks like Pat, which is fine, but I could not imagine my other half telling Pat his problems without thinking of SNL, honestly, could you? And regardless of how mad I may be at my significant other....I'm not that mad.
"Y'all gotta just love each other"
Sorry Pat...off the list.
The next was a young lady. Quite attractive and well put together.
I circled her name....
wrote down the number....
picked up the phone ....
Then decided she was too sexy.
Won't work.
The last was the farthest distance from my house but his website was up to date, easy to navigate and his smiling face was like the friendly, bald science teacher from middle school.
He did not look threatening, he graduated from a real college, not online certification, and he was not wearing a bow tie.
plus he had the balls to say he was "seasoned"
I like it.
Now if I get there and he is this "seasoned" I may have to re-evaluate a few things, including my method of choosing a therapist.
I'll try to keep you semi posted about the funny stuff....Not the bullshit tears and stuff
If you have any other suggestions feel free to leave a comment.
all free therapy is gladly accepted.
Write ya later,
m
