I've mentioned here that my current therapist was forced to move her practice. She will now practice far far away from my home. My husband offered to drive me there for Saturday appointments (every other week) until I find a new therapist. She is going to even see me for next to nothing because of the move.

I have already started looking for therapists. Actually, I've been strongly encouraged to look specifically for psychologists (therapists with Ph.D. or Psy). I can go into that later, if anyone wants to know why I'm limiting the search to those.

My area has a lot of therapists, and even a number of psychologists, but even so, it's hard to find a good fit, and even harder to find one that is accepting new clients and preferably takes my insurance. Often I contact them and never hear back. Sometimes when I do they offer another therapist, but when I say I'd like them to have experience with bipolar patients, the inquiry dies. I have a strong feeling that many therapists do not want patients with bipolar disorder. Maybe I'm wrong, but my current therapist and psychiatrist did say that's a possibility. Especially a person with my circumstances. Hubby said he thinks some may think I'm too difficult to help. I'm not sure of that now, but I he's definitely right about the past.

I looked on my insurance provider list, got recommendations from people (though none accepted insurance), looked at Psychology Today, did google searches on "psychologists in 'my town area'". I spent oodles of time researching them and looking at websites. I had to eliminate some who totally didn't fit my needs.

I don't know what else to do. Does anyone have any suggestions? As I said, my hubby will drive me to my current psychologist's new far away location every other week (for a while), and she even offered to do Skype appointments for free.

By the way, my psychiatrist really wants me to have a female therapist and not male for a couple of reasons I won't go into. That eliminates about 25% of the options. There are fewer male therapists to begin with, though the ones I've seen do happen to be psychologists and not social workers.

P.S. Is anyone else having a problem with your posts showing extra spaces between paragraphs when you publish them? I've only noticed this today.