Write him a three or two star review on google maps and Yelp. In the first paragraph say he is is good at whatever he is good at.

In the second paragraph say However, Dr. xyz takes on more than he can chew as a psychologist, and suddenly bails out of longer term cases that catch him off guard suddenly that he lacks the hard skills . Say while you recommend him for short term or CBT, that he isn’t a reasonable providor for long term psychodynamic therapy.

At least he will hear you, and will be held accountable. The more balanced and reasonable , the more effective. Write line a supervisor, not an upset client.

QUOTE=autonoe;6618194]I don't post often, but I wrote a couple of months ago that I'd been considering quitting therapy. I always came around to staying and vowing to try harder. This was mostly because I liked my therapist's company. Well, my therapist just suddenly sent me packing after he decided that he didn't have the "tools" to treat me anymore.

Part of me felt a huge sense of relief because of the anxiety that simply going to therapy caused me, but another part of me felt hurt. And that's because he'd tried this more than once before, putting a new diagnosis on me that he couldn't treat. But this time there was no escaping it, and that was that. It happened very quickly, and I couldn't help but feel like he'd finally succeeded at getting rid of me.

Our final session was short and anticlimactic. There was no emotion from either of us, at least visibly. I felt at one point that I might cry when it hit me that I would not see him again, but because of how icy he seemed, I kept it together. I was hoping he would tell me that he'd enjoyed having me as a client or that he liked me as a person, but he didn't say anything of the kind. No hug, no handshake, nothing. He only gave me a list of other therapists that he thought could help me. We didn't even look at each other as I was walking out.

I'd been seeing him for over two years, so when I left the office, I felt deflated and unwanted and confused. And now I'm back to thoughts of how strange the therapeutic relationship is. Many times he mentioned the importance of our "relationship." I spent two years getting comfortable with this person and becoming fond of him, only to get sent down the road without so much as a "it's been nice having you here." Was it not worth mentioning? Or was it never nice?

Of course, as I've written here, I sometimes felt attracted to him and wondered if he felt the same. I never mentioned it to him and maybe was just imagining the reciprocation. But I have to wonder if that's part of why he let me go. I don't really believe this to be true, but it crosses my mind as I wonder what exactly happened on his end.

One week he mentioned that he thought I should go somewhere else. The next week we were done. It was so fast and that's why I feel like there was something more to it, and also because he'd tried the same thing twice before. And, for weeks before this, he seemed different and aloof during sessions. I felt like I'd done something wrong, but I never asked and just kept going. And then this happened.

At this point, I have not called any of the people on the list he gave me. I am not sure that I want to attempt therapist number five, especially after spending two years with one that I felt I had a good relationship with. I am not sure I have the energy to establish another relationship, tell my story yet again, and then go through the process of "working" on this new diagnosis.

Now I'm just dealing with things on my own and maybe that's how it should stay, at least for the time being. The one positive thing I can say about all this is that I enjoy not having to go to my appointments anymore. It got to where the sessions were causing me as much stress as the topics I needed to discuss, to the point I'd be in a pre-panic-attack state on arrival. It feels freeing that I no longer have this stress on my agenda each week. On the other hand, I still have unresolved problems and a new diagnosis, as well as the feeling I have been dumped and don't know why. I believe him that this new diagnosis could be correct and that I could use help with it, but this event just felt like more than that. And even if it's all in my head, it still bothers me. I now understand better why so many people slam the therapy profession. [/QUOTE]