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Not OP, but I have been thinking of starting CBT since a couple of months. I have never done therapy before and I feel pretty intimidated to just go to a therap
by occamschainsaw 7y ago
Not OP, but I have been thinking of starting CBT since a couple of months. I have never done therapy before and I feel pretty intimidated to just go to a therapist. How do you know if the therapist is right for you? Also, do you have any experience with app based therapists where you talk over the phone?
- DanBC 7y agoHi! It is anxiety proviking because it's a weird situation that we just don't get much experience of. I've had two rounds of CBT in England. The first was called "low intensity" -- this was group work, and the sessions were ruin by two therapists but they changed about halfway through. It ran for 6 weeks. I didn't find that much use. Later I had "high intensity" CBT, which was one to one and face to face with an experienced therapist. Things I found useful: she listened to me; she correctly identified the things that I felt were a problem that I wanted to work on; she changed some of her wa of working to fit me. (I hate the phone, so she used email to contact me if needed, which doesn't sound like much but it can be really tricky to get NHS people to email patients). I don't have experience with phone based therapy, but I do know it's used in the English NHS so there must be some evidence it works somewhere. I really hope that you give it a go, and that it makes a difference!