I started with a list of therapists who took my insurance and then did what research was possible online. For that I was mainly eliminating. One of them my then psychiatrist/therapist had worked with over insurance matters and he recommended him as at least a good guy who cared enough about his clients to fight for them. I've been to him for 6 sessions. We got along easily.

Unfortunately his areas of interest and therapy were not mine. so I've just switched to another. Pulled out my annotated list from the insurance company and chose the one closest to me. (Therapist #2's office was pretty far away.) She seems to understand the direction I want to take, but I still haven't decided how much I like her. Not sure if I want a female therapist too.

I had been looking for a new psychiatrist and also ended up with a new internist all at the same time. It's not fun "interviewing" a bunch of health care people at once. There wasn't a PsyD who was on my (short) list and taking new patients. For the pdoc I had to start calling many months before. Didn't find any who do therapy too.