How to find a suitable therapist?

Many therapists are on psychologytoday.com and you can contact them. You can ask if they do sliding scale so you don't have to pay full price.

If you know what trauma treatment method you want, you can search on it's official website for certified therapists. For example, IFS therapists are listed on ifs-institute.com.

You can ask the therapist how much experience they have treating your condition and how many were healed of trauma and able to be happy and function normally. Many will talk with you on the phone so you can get a feel for them. I learned if I feel something is off that I should listen and keep looking, that can definitely cause you to waste money.

Methods that have success in treating trauma are ones like EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, Brainspotting, Internal Family Systems, etc. The therapist should be familiar with people like Kolk and Levine, being up-to-date, understanding trauma is mainly biological, not so much psychological.

Many people aren't ready to process trauma at first and need to spend time learning to inhabit the body with whatever grounding methods youc an do, so it's good to work on that as much as possible on your own so you can get the most out of the therapy. If not it may be awhile before you can do trauma processing, which is where the real changes occur.

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