Interesting. Apparently, my thinking on this has been completely wrong. I've never had luck with any therapist I've ever seen and attributed it to their lack of a specific degree or specialty. My assumption was that a social worker would never be able to help me and that I needed a 'specialist' in PTSD who was an actual 'doctor' of psychology. On paper I finally found 'the one' but after three months of seeing her the only thing I know differently now than before is that she added another diagnosis to my PTSD. I'm still sitting here three months later wondering when we are going to start therapy but am not experienced enough to know if this feeling is coming from my lack of experience with 'doctors' and that chatting about our lives is her special technique to create a trusting relationship or if I should have moved on a month ago. I know a lot about my therapist, which isn't the norm, so I'm not sure that a degree or speciality or years of experience matters at this point. I'm trying to be patient but so far I don't see anything different with her than I did with anyone else.