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Getting quality health care “should” be your right, unfortunately, in our current healthcare systems that can be challenging if not impossible at times.
A good place to start is by reflecting on your own needs. Answer the questions below and think about how important each one is to you. While it would be wonderful to get ALL your needs met, you might have to make some compromises (or spend a lot of time, energy, and money looking).
I wish all clients got quality care by all therapists in all types of treatment. Unfortunately, all therapy is not equal.
Let me preface this article by stating that there will never be one type of treatment or one therapist who is a good fit for everyone. We all have different needs, goals, personalities, experiences, and preferences.
However, it’s important to realize for yourself, as an individual, that just because you are meeting with a therapist, does not mean that you are receiving quality care or the type of treatment that will work best for you. It also doesn’t mean that there isn’t someone out there who can absolutely support you in just the way you need.
The brain likes things in neat categories. It likes to keep things simple. It likes to know and to predict and to be right. It doesn’t like not knowing, being uncertain, out of control, or wrong. Sounds obvious, right? But actually, we don’t realize how many instances in our daily lives are impacted by the brain’s desire for certainty. So many decisions are made because of the meaning our brain assumes or the category it puts something in just so we could feel more at ease.
