Hi there, welcome to the Mathiaship Archer Podcast.

Hi everyone, I hope you're doing well.

Um, in today's podcast, I'm really excited to share with you.

It's really, it's been a podcast that's been a long time coming.

I've really needed to make this podcast for a while because I get this question constantly.

How do I find a good therapist?

It's usually something like, hey, Mathias, do you have sessions?

Do you have availability?

And then I say, no, I'm, I'm full at the moment.

I have a long wait list and then someone will immediately ask, okay,

do you know anyone in my area, um, like maybe it's a friend who lives in the same city I do?

Maybe it's, you know, someone in a DM's and so maybe they're from Milwaukee or Dallas or,

you know, Taiwan or something.

Do you know someone in my town that would be a good fit that you could co-sign and say,

hey, if you co- with this person, you can have an awesome experience.

And I wish more than anything that I could say, yes, here's this amazing person.

Go with them and they're available in their cheap, you know, that would be amazing.

But, but most of the time, 99% of the time, that's not the case.

And there's a lot of reasons for that.

One reason would be that just in like the mental health field generally,

it's not often the case that you can actually observe someone's work.

Like unless you're an intern or a student, there's no real reason that you would sit

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