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How do you find the right therapist?
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<blockquote data-quote="flutterbee" data-source="post: 111391"><p>Oh...I forgot to mention building resources. difficult child's therapist talks about this a lot. With anyone - child or adult - who is emotionally fragile, somewhat unstable, whatever you want to call it...before you can really work on the hard stuff, the therapist should first work with the patient to build resources to be able to cope with the stuff they work on down the line.</p><p></p><p>If they start pushing too fast, too soon they're going to push difficult child right out the door. We had that happen with a therapist (psychologist - doctorate). He didn't realize just how volatile difficult child was - she can compensate very well - and he pushed too hard. We weren't even out the door when difficult child started full blown meltdown. We got home, I sent her upstairs to her room to let her get her meltdown out and called therapist from the kitchen phone to find out what in the hell just happened. I got his voicemail. He could hear difficult child screaming on the voicemail and she was upstairs on the other side of the house with the door closed. He called me the next day and was just dumbfounded. I was kinda like, 'Now do you believe me?!' He actually was a very good therapist. He just didn't pick up on how volatile difficult child was. But, that cinched it. He could get nowhere with her after that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flutterbee, post: 111391"] Oh...I forgot to mention building resources. difficult child's therapist talks about this a lot. With anyone - child or adult - who is emotionally fragile, somewhat unstable, whatever you want to call it...before you can really work on the hard stuff, the therapist should first work with the patient to build resources to be able to cope with the stuff they work on down the line. If they start pushing too fast, too soon they're going to push difficult child right out the door. We had that happen with a therapist (psychologist - doctorate). He didn't realize just how volatile difficult child was - she can compensate very well - and he pushed too hard. We weren't even out the door when difficult child started full blown meltdown. We got home, I sent her upstairs to her room to let her get her meltdown out and called therapist from the kitchen phone to find out what in the hell just happened. I got his voicemail. He could hear difficult child screaming on the voicemail and she was upstairs on the other side of the house with the door closed. He called me the next day and was just dumbfounded. I was kinda like, 'Now do you believe me?!' He actually was a very good therapist. He just didn't pick up on how volatile difficult child was. But, that cinched it. He could get nowhere with her after that. [/QUOTE]
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