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A request for assistance.
Mar. 14th, 2007 05:24 pmThose of you who've done this, I could use your help.
I'm trying to find a psychologist in my area to see for my myriad issues[1]. I have approval from my health insurance, and I have a online search function thingy to find ones in my area. But I don't know what the next step is. Do I just call them and schedule an appointment? Is there some sort of phone-interview thing in either direction? I'm totally clueless.
My biggest issue is trying to find a poly-friendly (or at least poly-accepting therapist), with a side note of BDSM ok (should that come up). I figured searching for a therapist who specializes in "gay/lesbian issues" would be good first step as they'd be more likely to be ok with alternate relationships/sexuality.
Ok, when one is at the end of one's rope, this is not the optimal time to try and figure out how to do something I have no experience with and which scares the hell out of me. I've been keeping quiet about all of this as much as possible, because if I start talking about it on here I'm not sure I'll be able to stop. And I doubt most of you want to listen to pages of how I'm not able to deal with the crap going on in my life.
[1] As an aside, I'm scared shitless about this. But has been out of cope for way too long, and no matter what I do I end up feeling worse than before.
I'm trying to find a psychologist in my area to see for my myriad issues[1]. I have approval from my health insurance, and I have a online search function thingy to find ones in my area. But I don't know what the next step is. Do I just call them and schedule an appointment? Is there some sort of phone-interview thing in either direction? I'm totally clueless.
My biggest issue is trying to find a poly-friendly (or at least poly-accepting therapist), with a side note of BDSM ok (should that come up). I figured searching for a therapist who specializes in "gay/lesbian issues" would be good first step as they'd be more likely to be ok with alternate relationships/sexuality.
Ok, when one is at the end of one's rope, this is not the optimal time to try and figure out how to do something I have no experience with and which scares the hell out of me. I've been keeping quiet about all of this as much as possible, because if I start talking about it on here I'm not sure I'll be able to stop. And I doubt most of you want to listen to pages of how I'm not able to deal with the crap going on in my life.
[1] As an aside, I'm scared shitless about this. But has been out of cope for way too long, and no matter what I do I end up feeling worse than before.
