Welcome to That Anxiety Guy, episode 5, tips on how to choose a therapist. Hey everybody Drew here.

Drew here.

Drew here.

Thanks for stopping by to listen.

Today I want to talk about something that I get asked about on a pretty regular basis

and that is how do I go about finding a therapist if I decide that that's the right thing for me.

That's a great question and it's definitely worth talking about.

So I think we're going to spend a little time on that today.

So many people with anxiety disorders can really make a lot of great progress

on their own without a therapist, but getting professional help is not really a bad

idea. So if you think that enlisting the help of a professional therapist is right for you,

then that's awesome. And there are some things you should probably know before you start looking. So let's go over those.

The first thing you kind of need to know overall is that not all therapy

and not all therapists are equal. It's not generic, they're not the same. There are differences.

So there are different styles and theories of therapy.

They vary quite widely.

Not all of them are effective necessarily

in the case of anxiety disorders.

And when I'm talking about anxiety disorders,

I'm talking about things like panic disorder, agoraphobia,

OCD, social anxiety, even some eating disorders, that sort of thing.

Now, some types of therapy are absolutely more effective than others. of worth understanding the differences.

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