By Dan Zomerlei, PhD, LMFT | Alliance Counseling Group This is probably the question I get asked most often before someone starts therapy. And my honest answer — which I know isn’t the answer people are hoping for — is: it depends. I know. Not satisfying. But “it depends” doesn’t mean “there’s no way to […]
By Dan Zomerlei, PhD, LMFT | Alliance Counseling Group Most people walk into a first therapy appointment the way they walk into a job interview — nervous, trying to make a good impression, hoping to answer everything correctly. It usually takes them a while to realize: they’re also the one doing the hiring. A consultation […]
By Dan Zomerlei, PhD, LMFT | Alliance Counseling Group I’ll be honest with you about something I don’t think gets said enough in the mental health world. The most important thing about your therapist isn’t their degrees. It isn’t their years of experience. It isn’t even their specialty, though that matters more than people realize. […]
By Dan Zomerlei, PhD, LMFT, MDiv | Alliance Counseling Group I want to push back on something that’s built into this question. The idea of being “ready” for therapy assumes there’s a threshold you need to reach first — a level of struggle, a degree of certainty, a state of sufficient brokenness — before you’ve […]
