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I’m sorry your therapist is leaving on top of all that. If the situation is this dire, could you get a fill in therapist while she’s gone? In the US, even if you’re getting a rarer kind of therapy, Psychology Today’s website has therapists you can filter down to exact kind of therapists and therapy and coverage for you needs.
My psychiatry office said they couldn’t hook me up to exact therapy resources I need unless they picked a general therapist that, by chance, just happened to be what I want. So I asked around, and turns out my rare kind of therapist are on the website under my insurance.
Aside from that resource, here’s a Covid-Concious Therapist Directory for both, in and outside of the US and Canada, plus “Brazil - Colombia - France - India - Australia Italy - Ireland - Japan - Malaysia - Mexico - New Zealand - Northern Mariana Islands - Singapore - United Arab Emirates - United Kingdom - Trinidad”
Certain therapists on there can seem pretty leftist. What i don’t like about this website is that I can’t find a way to filter it down to what Psychology Today’s website lets me filter options down to. Filters seem to only ask what state I’m in.
Thank you for those resources. I’ve been debating trying to find a temp, i just work so well with my current therapist and I’ve had such a difficult time finding people I can feel comfortable working with in that capacity. my current plan was to disconnect from reality as much and as often as possible lol
If you’ve got a lot of trauma, repressed rage, anger, depression, etc… I know a person who says they know multiple people that say EMDR changed their life forever. If you’ve got those things, I truly reccomend trying EMDR. People can literally get diseases from not processing grief and more issues from all of these things.
Imo EMDR is far better than checking out. I can also see it being good for people who think about treating complex trauma through psychedelics, but can’t/don’t want to trip.
that sounds interesting, i don’t believe I’ve ever heard of it
Maybe you could use this as an opportunity to see if another kind of therapy/therapist will do better. Without my old therapists becoming unavailable I wouldn’t have discovered special kinds of therapy and new therapists, and see which ones do and don’t work for me. I felt comfortable with multiple therapists, but only one has worked as well because they do a special kinds of therapy i haven’t experienced before.
Think of it as extra experience even if your current therapist is practically perfect.