Welcome to the Therapy for Black Girls Podcast, where we discuss all things mental health,

personal development, and all the small decisions we can make to become the best possible

versions of ourselves.

I'm your host, Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, a licensed psychologist in Atlanta, Georgia.

To get more information and resources, visit the website at therapyforblackgirls.com.

And while I hope you love listening to and learning from the podcast, it is not meant

to be a substitute for a relationship with a licensed mental health professional.

Hey y'all, thanks so much for joining me for a session 40 of the Therapy for Black Girls Podcast.

I wanted to record an episode today talking about a question that I've gotten a couple

of times in the inbox.

A couple of questions have come in asking, how will I know if I need into therapist or

asking for feedback about whether it's time to switch therapists?

So I wanted to talk with you about three ways that you might know that it is actually

time to go ahead and start looking for a new therapist.

So the first one is it's just not clicking.

So sometimes despite our best efforts, we just won't mesh with the therapist.

It doesn't have to mean that anything is wrong with you or the therapist, it just might

not be a match.

We have to remember that the therapeutic relationship is much like any other relationship and you

just won't click with everybody.

You do, however, want to make sure that you've given it some time to actually work through.

So even though therapy is a relationship, it is definitely more one-sided than other

...