So, my therapist has the crappiest online profile ever ...it doesn't at all outline everything he does or covers. I never would've picked him via PsychologyToday because his profile doesn't match anything I was looking for.

I have found most of my Ts the way you are doing - via PsychologyToday profiles. However, with this one, I knew that I needed something specific: someone who would do adult attachment trauma work and allow between-session contact. So, I actually emailed around to a few practices with a fairly extensive email detailing my situation and what I knew I wanted to have (namely, the outside contact).

One practice emailed back with two names of people I'd never heard of or seen in my PsychToday searches. I then reached out to one of them, and he is now my new T. I felt far more confident choosing him, also, because I had been referred to him -- colleagues knew his name, he was known in the community. This was helpful for me after coming out of a damaging, unethical therapy relationship.