Kim, I'm curious about how you got a pdoc for therapy? I think of pdocs as someone you go to for meds or perhaps meds+therapy. Did you call names out of the MD section of the phone book and say "I'm looking for a pdoc for therapy," and see who was interested? It seems unusual to me and I wonder how easy it would be to find that. Where I live, pdocs are a lot more expensive than therapists, and not necessarily better at therapy than therapists, so the big cost is a deterrent from seeing the pdoc just for therapy. I guess it is heartening to me to learn that pdocs even receive training in therapy in their residencies. But it's also kind of scary that this pdoc you are seeing is in her 4th year of residency and yet you may be her very first therapy client!

Do you call her "Dr."? I would think that typical of a doctor/patient relationship. But yet you're getting therapy from her, so maybe you don't call her "Dr."