What Should You Do If You Want To Change Therapists?

Explore If The Relationship Can Be Repaired

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If you’re not feeling like you are engaging with your therapist or no real progress is being made, talk about it. It could be a conversation that could change the course of your therapy experience. Was it something your therapist said? Did you envision the therapy would be different? Are you feeling skeptical about their interventions? Is there something you want to do in therapy that hasn’t happened? Address it. The therapist is your agent of change, so don’t be afraid to be honest and transparent regarding your feelings about your experience. This can help the therapist help you as well. For example, I had a client ask me to give her homework. I usually do this with teens, not my adults. But this is something that she wanted to incorporate into her therapeutic journey, so it was my responsibility to do so.