My best advice is to interview them first. Some therapists & psychologists don't really appreciate that because they think it's a waste of their time (and they'd probably rather be paid an hour for 5-minutes of work) BUT some therapists really do appreciate it. The C (who is a psychologist) that my H and I are going to is the ONLY one who returned my call requesting a brief phone interview with her.
I chose to take a phone interview approach for a couple of reasons....
#1 I wanted to make sure we were going to be going to someone who knew we wanted to "save" our M and truly work with us to do that.
#2 I wanted to make sure we were going to be spending our well earned money on someone who would call "BULL" if she saw it (on either of us)...and not tiptoe around it.
#3 I wanted to kind of get a feel for the approach/style the therapist has. My H had been to one for several months (on his own) who seemed to concentrate more on bio-feedback than actually talking....this got us no-where, the main problem my H has is that he won't communicate (DUH!).
The C we finally went with (who we really both like) did call me back, did give me the phone interview, listened to a brief history of what we'd been through, gave me some feedback as to what her approach/style is....and we are both very happy with her.
Try it....many people won't call you back...obviously those aren't the ones you want to be spending your money with, it'll save you some time and frustration!
