May 13, 2014
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Getting A Therapist

2 min • 271 words • 33 comments
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/13/getting-a-therapist/
Scott Alexander discusses finding therapists, shares a helpful resource, and asks readers for therapist recommendations in specific areas. Longer summary
Scott Alexander addresses reader requests for advice on finding a therapist. He acknowledges his limited ability to help outside southern Michigan and refers readers to a series of articles by Gruntled and Hinged on the topic. Scott then opens up the question to his readers, asking for recommendations of good therapists, particularly tele-therapists or those in the Bay Area and New York City. He provides a list of recommended therapists in various locations as shared by his readers in the comments. Shorter summary
Recurring tags: psychiatry (72), mental health (68), Bay Area (18), therapy (9), New York City (2)

Several people have emailed me asking for advice finding a therapist, and I worry I haven’t been much help. One of the advantages of being a psychiatrist is not having to worry about finding a psychiatrist. I know a few people in southern Michigan personally and can give some advice if you live there; outside that I’m stuck.

Luckily Gruntled and Hinged just wrote a good series of articles on how to find and contact a therapist for mental health problems. I’ll be referring those kinds of questions there in the future.

But I’ll also open up one question to anyone who can help: anyone want to volunteer the name of a good therapist whom they would recommend to other readers? Clearly geography is an issue here, so I would be most interested in knowing about tele-therapists or people in the Bay Area / New York City where a lot of SSC readers tend to congregate.

Bay Area:
Dr. Judith Sachs (recommended by David Chapman)

New York City:
Deb Shapiro (recommended by jayshap)

Greater Boston:
Integrative Psychology (recommended by Hibiscus)
Life Changes Group (recommended by Hibiscus)

Ann Arbor:
Rebecca Hatton (recommended by Paul Torek)
[Ask Scott privately for psychiatrist recommendations in Ann Arbor / Detroit]

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