How to spot a good therapist

From Psychology Today, they listed 10 ways to spot a good psychotherapist regardless of therapeutic approach.

Here is a snap shot of the ten items.

1. Good therapy is not friendship
2. Good therapy is evidence based
3. Good therapy affirms the clients basic human dignity and worth
4. Good therapy encourages and models accurate, honest, and timely feedback in communication
5. Good therapy = good therapeutic alliance
6. Good therapy encourages the clients idependence and competence
7. Good therapy considers the clients history and biography
8. Good therapy takes into account the clients subjective experience and inner world
9. Good therapy happens when the client does the work
10. Good therapy offers support, requires learning, and facilitates action

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