Thank you all so much. I feel so cared about here! I'm sorry it took me so long to check in.I was too emotionally drained to post then lost the internet.

It's hard to tell after one session. I don't know. I liked her but.. she is not a psychologist. She is a MS LMHC and I'm not sure how I feel about that. She is psychoanyltic in orientation and is a cadidtate at the institute I contacted, which means she's highly qualified according to someone I know.

I thiink I didn't do well.

She likes to meet several times before deciding if she and the client will work well together. That feels stressful and of course I wanted her to decide that night.

She is not close, I don't have a car. She offered another evening appointment but I would have to borrow a car again and i can't do that for every session; the bus to that area doesn't run after 5:30. At first I thought she said she didn't work on Fridays but would come in late afternoon. I didnt' want her doing that for me.. So I left with no appointment and thinking I had to start looking again. She offered to see if there was someone else near me or look at my insruance company's list of providers because she said that some T's will say they are CBT only to get on an insurer's list, and she might know more about them. ... Anyway I cried all the way home (and pretty much since then) , then called her when I got home and checked the bus schedule and decided Friday would be ok, called & left a message. She called me at work Thursday to set an appointment for the 9th and reminded me she'd said that she had been thinking of adding some late afternoon hours on Friday. I'd said but I thought you didn't want to work on Fridays.. so it was nice of her to kind of reassure me like that; I appreciated it.

She was easy to talk to. Calm, secure, and really wanted to talk with me! She asked me more about things I said. .. I think I like her a lot. I told her things I always avoided talking about before. She ws accepting and non-judgemental. I think I could feel comfortable there.

Just not sure about that degree.

So, yeah. It went well.

I thiink I got what I wanted.

Yikes.