Finding a Therapist in Connecticut
Are you on the search for a high-quality Connecticut therapy experience?
The process of finding a therapist in Connecticut can feel overwhelming. There are many questions that might be floating through your head. To name a few:
“What do I search in Google to find the right therapist?”
“What qualities should I be looking for in a therapist?”
“How do I know if a therapist is right for me?”
Let’s say you’ve found a handful therapists in Connecticut that seem qualified to you. All of them talk about offering a free consultation to potential clients like you. But, what should you ask? What should you say? What is appropriate? What even is the purpose of a consultation? How do you know during and after the consultation if that therapist is a good fit for you?
Questions to Ask a Therapist in Connecticut
A therapy consultation can feel intimidating and overwhelming to even the most confident person. If you’re looking to work with a therapist in Connecticut right now, it is likely because you are facing specific challenges that might have you feeling lost, stuck, confused, and/or vulnerable. Add on talking to a stranger about the most intimate challenge of the moment for you right now. Seeing it written out that way, I hope it makes more sense to you why you might feel nervous, apprehensive, or anxious about the free therapy consultation.
I would like to help you feel less stressed, intimidated, and overwhelmed by the free therapy consultation by giving you a short list of tips to help you navigate the consultation with more confidence and trust in yourself:
Identify (with as much clarity as possible) what your personal goals for therapy are.
Before booking the free therapy consultation, it is important that you first get clear on what you want to get out of therapy. Great potential questions you can ask yourself are: “What issues / challenges do I want to resolve in therapy (i.e. behavioral patterns, anxiety, depression, relationship patterns, trauma, etc.?) Are there specific tools that I know I want my therapist to specialize in (i.e. somatic practice, EMDR therapy, CBT therapy, DBT therapy, IFS, etc.)? How will I know that the issues / challenges are resolved when I am complete with therapy? What will be different about me? How will I act, speak, and be in the world?”You are interviewing the therapist.
Therapists are human just like you (hi, I’m Heather, a therapist, and very much human 😉). They do not know you better than you know yourself. They do not know what it best for you — you know what is best for you. Enter the consultation with this empowered mindset and view the consultation as an opportunity for you to interview this therapist so that you can determine if they are the right fit for you.Ask about their approach.
Inquire about the therapeutic methods they use. Listen closely and ask any clarifying questions you have such as, “How do you individualize your approach to each client so that it is tailored to their needs?”Ask about logistics.
Ask the therapist what a typical sessions looks like, how long the session is, how much a therapy session costs, and what their availability / scheduling is.Ask how they measure their client’s progress.
Ask the therapist how they track their client’s progress and what signs indicate to them that therapy is working and that their client is making progress in therapy.Notice how you feel while you’re talking with the therapist.
Your body is an incredible tool to help you gauge how comfortable you feel with the therapist. (Note: If you have a history of people-pleasing or outsourcing your power to perceived authority figures, this tip may be especially helpful to keep in mind!) If you feel excited, expansive, energized, peaceful, and open during or after the consultation, that could be a sign from your body that the therapist could be a good fit for you. If you feel confused, depleted, have a sense that something is “off,” or feel a sense of heaviness or contraction in your body during or after the consultation, make a note of that and reflect on what your body is trying to tell you. It could be a sign that the therapist is not a good fit for you.
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To sum it up:
You deserve support from someone who can truly help you. Therapy isn’t for chatting with a third party weekly — therapy is about reaching your soul’s goals and getting real support that fits your soul’s needs. I hope this helps you find the right kind of Connecticut therapy to help you reach your goals. You deserve the healing and support you’re looking for.
