I had a breakdown while staying over at one of my friend's. He called an emergency psychiatry service and some lady came over to talk to me. She recommended I go to therapy but didn't have a spot available in her own practice (I didn't like her too much anyways). So she gave me the number of a guy she knew had some open spots (the guy turned out to be her husband, but she didn't tell me at the time, he told me immediately though). She also put down a website where I could go find other therapists if I didn't like the one she recommended.

I called the guy, we scheduled a first session where I brought the same friend who initially called the emergency service with me. I wasn't too impressed by my T during that session, nor during the next few, but he also didn't mess up anything major like all the other therapists I'd seen before him. I decided to stick around for a while, simply because I couldn't be bothered to search for yet another therapist and because there wasn't anything wrong with him, there just wasn't an immediate great chemistry between us. Looking back at that, it might well have been his own insecurities that I felt during that time which made me question whether he was really the right T.

But, I decided to stick with him for long enough that we both got comfortable around each other and after about half a year it was pretty clear to me that I was happy with him as a T and decided to stay for however long it takes/I can stay.