How To Find Good Denver Therapists

By Author: Ryan Fitzgerald
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If you are looking for Denver therapists for the first time, you may understandably be confused about how you should go about the whole process. Don’t worry. This article will give you a few pointers to help you find the most suitable therapist for yourself, whether you are seeking depression therapy, anger management, OCD treatment or divorce counseling, to name just a few possible areas in which you might need help.


First of all, there is no such thing as the best therapist or counselor, even if you are looking at only a narrow field, like divorce counseling, for instance. A particular divorce counselor who has helped many people might still not be suitable for you. So you can’t just pick the most ‘successful’ therapist for your particular problem and expect him or her to automatically work miracles with you. Therapy works, and study after study has proven that. But no one can say which particular approach will work with which individual, for which issue. There are many types of depression therapy, for example, but no one can predict whether a particular therapist’s approach to it will work more ...
... than another’s.


Therefore, when picking a therapist in Denver, you should focus more on how it ‘feels’ talking with a particular therapist. Your gut feeling is very important. The success of any type of counseling, whether it is divorce counseling, or anxiety counseling, or even PTSD counseling, depends a lot on how comfortable you feel discussing your problems and issues with the counselor or therapist. Therefore, it’s imperative to see how you feel in your interactions with your potential therapist from the very first call itself.


Some of the questions you should ask yourself after the initial phone call are – Did the counselor sound friendly or too busy? Was he or she even irritated? Did he or she have expertise with my particular issue, like, say, depression therapy? Was the call returned within 24 hours (if you got an answering machine on the first try)? If you get a good feeling from this first telephonic interaction, you can consider going for a trial session with 2-3 Denver therapists. Many therapist and counselors offer such sessions free of charge.


You should use the first session as another to test how comfortable you feel confiding your deepest secrets and emotions to someone who is essentially a stranger. If it’s your first therapy session ever, you are bound to be nervous and hesitant; nevertheless, a good therapist should be able to make you feel a little more confident and at ease. A therapist should offer more than non committal nods, and an odd “I see” or “hmmm”. He or she should offer insights that help you see what you haven’t seen about yourself before.


Ryan FitzGerald is the Co-Founder of WebTribes Inc. WebTribes is a network of online community websites designed to bring people with similar life issues together from around the world that are in need of support. The support communities are for people affected by Depression, Addiction, OCD and HIV/Aids. Browse Therapy Tribe to How to Find A Therapist, Santa Barbara Therapists, and Philippines therapist.