Getting Started in Therapy

What Makes a Therapist a Good Fit?

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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. […]

How Do I Know When I’m Ready for Therapy?

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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 […]