#255 - Signs You Have a Bad Therapist
Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
4.6 • 849 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Who you work with really matters when it comes to outcomes in therapy. How do you tell a good therapist from a bad one? What are the subtle signs that your therapist might be nice, but ineffective or even unqualified? What are the red flags that your therapist is behaving unethically? Spilling *all* the beans on this episode, so you can make informed and empowered choices.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success Podcast. |
| 0:14.3 | Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy, there's one they want to give me psychotherapy psychotherapy |
| 0:21.5 | psychotherapy |
| 0:22.6 | I mean I had to play that song at some point right |
| 0:28.9 | psychotherapy by the Ramones |
| 0:32.5 | I actually found a skid Row version of that song. |
| 0:37.6 | That's not half bad, but I'm a traditionalist, so I decided to go with the original. |
| 0:43.2 | But yeah, so today we're not talking about psychotherapy as much as we are going to be talking about psychotherapists because I have been thinking for a while now |
| 0:59.1 | that at some point I need to do an episode of the podcast that's really kind of like a public |
| 1:04.3 | service announcement even more than some of the others around things to watch out for if you are getting involved in counseling |
| 1:14.2 | or coaching or psychotherapy with someone because I have heard some really scary stories |
| 1:21.7 | more so lately and I think there is an education factor know, the truth is is that a lot of people, you know, from time to time think, hey, I need to go talk to somebody. So what do you do? You start Googling around. You, you know, look for people in your area. And, you know, somebody has a slick website. It looks pretty good. They |
| 1:46.3 | seem like somebody you would feel comfortable with. You're like, hey, why not? They do online |
| 1:50.2 | booking. And you get involved with a practitioner, a mental health practitioner, a life coach |
| 2:00.3 | of some kind. |
| 2:01.9 | And before you know it, you're in the pool with someone. |
| 2:07.2 | And it can be very, very difficult to know, like, what is good quality therapy or marriage |
| 2:15.5 | counseling or life coaching? |
| 2:17.0 | And what is not? Like, what are signs |
| 2:20.6 | that you're not having the experience that you deserve to have? Especially if you, if it's like |
| 2:28.8 | your first experience and you haven't done it before. So that is the intention of today's podcast. |
| 2:36.3 | I'm going to be giving some overviews like things to look for, things to watch out for. |
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