How To Pick A Good Therapist

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David J Puder

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Working with a good therapist often requires fewer sessions than other therapists to see improvement; in contrast, working with a therapist you don’t connect with, or with inadequate training, may require an extended number of sessions (Okiishi et al. 2003). People that see effective therapists are more likely to recover or partially recover, whereas those that work with a “bad” therapist are more likely to see no change or an increase in symptoms (Okiishi et al. 2006).

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Psychiatry and Psychotherapy podcast, with over 32,000 mental
0:14.2	professionals listening every episode.
0:17.2	Why?
0:18.2	Because we need to stick together to survive a mental health field.
0:20.8	I'm here to talk about getting rid of burnout, increasing jobs satisfaction, and feeling
0:25.5	like an expert in what you do.
0:31.1	Welcome back to the podcast.
0:32.1	I am here with Ginger Simonton.
0:35.5	She is a therapist in the men program here that works with me who has been on some prior
0:41.0	episodes on emotional congruence and childhood sexual abuse.
0:45.3	I'm also here with two medical students, four years going into psychiatry who have been
0:49.1	on rotation with me, and Ginger as well, Tori Bergkart and Valerie Poo-U-Dum-Sok, am I
0:59.3	saying that right?
1:00.3	That was great.
1:01.3	Okay.
1:02.3	Alright, so today we are going to be talking about how to pick an excellent therapist.
1:08.0	And I'm going to start out by saying, this is a common problem that a lot of patients
1:11.8	come to us with, and Ginger, have you had a lot of people ask you how do I pick a good
1:18.6	therapist?
1:19.6	Definitely.
1:20.6	They'll ask as they're finishing up our intensive outpatient program, how do they find somebody
1:26.4	that meets their needs effectively outside of the intensive outpatient program?
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