This content was created by Hannah Rose. This content was uploaded by Hannah Rose. This is a YouTube video titled "How to Find a Therapist!" (an episode of "Hannah Talks About Things") published on 2019-11-26. It is a short, solo-voice informational episode in which the host offers practical tips for finding a therapist—recommending word-of-mouth referrals and using PsychologyToday.com (search by zip code, filter by insurance, demographics such as LGBTQ or trauma-informed, therapeutic approaches like CBT, view specialties/experience, and follow links to therapist websites). The advice is framed around the Thanksgiving holiday and is presented as straightforward guidance for viewers seeking therapy.
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Hi everyone, and welcome to another episode of Hannah Talks About Things. So on today's very brief episode, I wanted to identify how to find a therapist. I get asked often, probably every day if not almost every day, how to find a good therapist. So I wanted to just lay out a couple of really easy ways to find a therapist right in time for the holidays, especially because being home and around family or not with family can bring up a whole lot of unresolved wounds. Get a therapist. So if you have friends that are in therapy, I recommend the absolute best way to find a therapist is through word of mouth. So if you have friends or peers or colleagues or whoever that seem to be doing some good work in therapy and have actually talked about that, ask them, "Hey, who's your therapist?" or "Do you know of a good therapist?" etc. Now if you don't know people that are in therapy or it's just not really something you're comfortable talking about, then the easiest way to find a therapist is to go to www.psychologytoday.com. I know I write for Psychology Today, but that whole blog section is totally different than the Find a Therapist section. So what you do is you go to psychologytoday.com and you type in your zip code. After that, you can click preferences like your insurance company, um, you know, if there's a specific demographic that you want your therapist to cater to, for example LGBTQ or trauma-informed, um, maybe that they use CBT or existential approaches, etc. But so zip code, you insurance. If insurance is not an option, then you don't have to click anything off. Or if insurance is not an issue and you can afford self-pay, which is usually pretty pricey, um, then you don't have to click that. And then what's going to happen is Psychology Today is going to have a bunch of different therapists in your area, and it's going to have their picture. And then if you click on their page, it'll show their therapeutic approach, the specific demographics and types of clients that they cater to, specialties, years in practice, education, etc. If they do have a website, then their Psychology profile will also have a link to that website. So check it out. I would say there's no harm in just looking for therapists in your area, and hopefully this helps. Happy Thanksgiving week, and yeah, okay, bye.
