I found mine from a referral through an email to the author of an article on Psychology Today about issues similar to what I was going through, describing the k

I found mine from a referral through an email to the author of an article on Psychology Today about issues similar to what I was going through, describing the kind of qualities I was looking for (specifically, I asked if they knew someone who'd be able to understand when I use movie and TV analogies to describe how I'm feeling). The author must have forwarded my email to a colleague (who may have, in turn, forwarded it to further links in a chain - all the intermediary addresses were duly absent from the final referral I got, as should be expected from professionals), because soon after, I got a response from a new contact, referring me to a therapist who turned out to be a good fit. Looking for a therapist can really suck (I'd had somewhere around eight months of trying at least five different bad-fit therapists before I tried the random-midnight-email approach above), so I figured I'd mention the approach that actually ended up working for me.