From Cary And Mchenry, Illinois: Crucial-the Best Counselors Provide These 6 Benefits

Finding a counselor can be confusing and frustrating

. What qualities or features should you screen for when endeavoring to find a counselor, psychologist, or psychiatrist that is perfect for you?

1. First, look for a counselor or psychologist who demonstrates a real concern for you, as a person, not just as a patient. Get a therapist who will not whack you relentlessly with exhorbitant fees.

Many commercially-oriented counselors demand that you pay the whole fee at each session and then promise to reimburse you for any amount that your insurance pays later. That is not a consumer-oriented policy for payment. Grab your wallet and run!

Locate a counselor who enthusiastically accepts your health insurance and requires you to only provide your co-pay at each visit, which is usually only $10 to $35.

2. Next and very importantly, find a counseling expert who displays a genuine concern and interest in you as a human being. He should not rush or appear burdened or hurried. Unfortunately, some therapists appear so calloused or disinterested that it feels like they are shoving you out the door almost as soon as you arrive!

Any therapist, counselor or psychologist you consult should display real patience. He or she should seem to really care and not constantly look down on some checklist or form rather than looking you in the eye.

It is crucial that you feel that your counselor listens to you more thoroughly than has anyone else. He or she should provide you with feedback that triggers light bulbs in your mind...the Ah Ha! feeling, Oh, I get it now!

He should be able to identify the emotions in your head and provide insightful comments. For example, is your idea to stay or leave your relationship based on legitimate reasons or on frustrated desires from your past? Does your therapist comment on how you may communicate anger and its impact on you or your kids?

3. Also, this field changes more rapidly than a stock ticker. Does your counselor or therapist attend continuing education seminars. Just ask.

If not, then s/he's methods will likely be antiquated...AND... so will the methods used in your counseling.

Unfortunately, many counselors often participate in a bare minimum of continuing education because it interferes with leisure time. Importantly, new therapy methods may have been developed that meet your needs more rapidly or achieve your ends more permanently.

Without participating in continuing education your therapist may have never heard of them. Through continuing education, your therapist should be able to treat you with the same methods that are used at the most scholarly institutions like the University of Chicago, Harvard, the Mayo Clinic and other renowned hospitals.

These methods include cognitive therapy, psychological testing, dialectical therapy, solution-focused treatment and the behaviorally-based therapeutic approaches. Each counseling tool should be masterfully applied to deliver the best results to you in the briefest amount of time.

So ask if your therapist stays on top of the newest psychological advances by regularly participating in continuing education and seminars.

4. Find a therapist who displays authentic concern for your quality of life. A Prompt Consultation Policy is just one example.

Don't consult a counselor who ignores you, leaving you to wait after you promptly arrive at his or her office. Ask the counselor if his patients are scheduled so that they don't get backed-up.

Barring an unexpected emergency, you should not have to wait more than 10 minutes.

5. Screen for enthusiasm when he or she makes an appointment for you. If, in making an appointment, the therapist displays an arrogant " I'm awfully busy, wait in line" attitude run for the hills. Impersonal commercial practices will often tell you that you have to wait days or weeks...without giving it a second thought!

A psychological counselor should display concern by providing you with an appointment in 7 days or less. If necessary, he or she should also have appointments available in the evenings or Saturdays to make it easier on you and your work schedule.

6. Also, be sure your therapist will work smoothly with your health plan so you have no billing headaches. The office should do all the paperwork. Also, be sure you only have to make your small co-pay at each visit.

Here is a summary of what to look for in a counselor:

1. Relaxed, unhurried visits

2. A state-of-the-art therapist who can provide the same advanced treatments that are used at Harvard, Johns Hopkins University and other distinguished institutions

3. An initial appointment provided to you within 7 days or less.

4. The office does all your insurance billing.

5. If necessary for you, evening and Saturday appointments are provided.

6. "Prompt Consultation Policy" - No waiting!

by: Mike Shery

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