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Image ID: Togruta said on July 12th: I have a psych degree and the types of people I've seen become therapists freak me TF out. Like a girl who smashed her boyfriend's windshield with her feet because he said something she disliked in his car while she was working in a battered women's shelter. she sounds like, uh, the correct sort of personality to be working with abuse victims... Also therapy schools are filled with clannish Pieces of Shit who care more about validating the teachings of their particular clade than about applying the technique most appropriate to their client. (I deleted and rewrote this comment to fix a maddening grammar mistake). /End ID
Image ID: #When I look back at my fellow psych students who were vying to become therapists, I worry about their future patients. Like, they had "Mean Girl Hoping to Become a Nurse" type energy. "I Hate the Mentally III, But I'll Be a Great Psychologist" type shit. Like, there are therapists out there who were likely EXACTLY like them in uni, who ended up making it in the world of psychology, and are bad therapists today. And I've had to deal with enough of them. Btw, I have a Bachelor's of Science in psychology. I may sound sort of anti-therapy/ anti-psychology but I'm not. I'm just being realistic about the realities of psychology and the state of therapy as I've experienced from both sides of the aisle. People tout therapy as this sort of fix-all curative without ever critically examining the field itself. OP is so right. /End ID

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Some questions I’ve found to help when choosing a therapist:

Do you have your own therapist?

Why did you get into this job? (“I just like helping people” is not enough and also a bit of a yellow bordering on red flag for me)

How many people do you typically see at one time and how many are you seeing now?

When can and can’t you disclose our conversation with others (also who are these ‘others’)

Where do you stand politically? (Im kinda 50/50 on this question because for me it’s really important as both a trans girl and as someone who’s issues often stem from capitalism and if I have to explain that capitalism ≠ good then that’s not gonna fly with me)

For my fellow queers, I know it can be limiting but please please try and find a queer therapist. It helps soooo much. If you can’t, ask them about their sexuality/gender regardless. Asking straight/cis people to reflect on their identities is a great way to figure out what color those flags are.

Same goes for any racialized people! I’m white so I can’t speak to it with the experience but I would bet my left AND right hand that having someone of the same culture/lived experience is gonna be such a better environment to do therapy in.

Remember, you’re paying the therapist! I know there are some situations where people can be required to be in therapy but even then you aren’t stuck with any one of them.

Listen to your instincts, if things feel not 100% tell them that if you’re comfortable and otherwise finish the session and get outta there!

Therapy is a tool, you wouldn’t use a tool that hurt you so don’t think you have to keep seeing the same therapist just because you’ve been with them this far.

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