No I wasn't referred but a friend of mine is a therapist in new york and said she thought it would be good for me. I just googled the closest one to where I was living at the time. And it was her. I actually like her a lot, but I have a problem of taking small things very personally. Especially when people do not call or text back I take it to the extreme- that they don't care and they I won't talk to them ever again.