×Therapist and Client - Therapy Session

A therapist provides support to a client during a therapy session

If you're shopping around for a psychotherapist, you may wonder how to tell a winner from one that is so-so or even no-no.

The popular myth is that academic training makes a competent practitioner. Put anybody into a graduate program or residency in psychology, clinical social work or psychiatry and add a few years of on-the-job experience and out comes an emotional healer.

If head-shrinking were merely a technical application, like working on cars, this would be just dandy. And some mental health types view it as such, acting as if the brain is an engine needing a tune-up. I call these folks “grease monkeys of the mind.”

Their appeal is obvious. A little medication here, a touch

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