I've had a lot of t's over the years. I used to use the insurance company's list. More recently, I used Psychology Today. I'm not sure if it's a coincidence, but it worked better. I wonder if the insurance company tends to list more t's who have less training and charge less.

Anyway, I also found l tend to do better with t's who have PhDs. There have been others who were good who didn't have PhDs but I like them to be intelligent. There was one who had a PhD I didn't like as a therapist because she seemed too emotionally unengaged and scientific, always talking about the journal literature she read. Interesting, but it was more like a lecture than therapy. And there was one other t with a PhD who I went to for one visit. She followed some therapy guru who believed in getting the client angry. She successfully immitated her guru in that respect, but not for long for with me .

I haven't done well with social workers. I know social workers get less training. The ones I saw tended to try to do step by step solutions to solve immediate, concrete problems, and that wasn't what I wanted. It would wind up with endless discussion on defining the problem, because it wasn't actually an immediate, concrete problem that I had in mind.

So I guess I like t's who are emotionally engaged and intelligent and who talk enough to keep the conversation going at first, but not too much.