I'm probably not in the best position to answer this since my own experiences with therapy were so long ago. I started out talking to a therapist at school during a rough patch but I wouldn't say we even got into any real therapy. Two years later I went back and the second therapist referred me to a neighborhood clinic for two years of what was then called "long-term therapy". I gather the school therapists' job was to settle me down and get me off their books as quickly as possible.

The clinic was OK, and didn't cost me very much. It was apparently where new psychiatry graduates from a local med school would practice doing supervised therapy. Everything like it has probably been replaced with counseling centers by now.

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