{"id":9159,"date":"2024-07-08T17:09:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T17:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=9159"},"modified":"2024-07-08T17:27:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T17:27:09","slug":"what-red-flags-pushed-you-to-leave-your-therapist-tell-us-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=9159","title":{"rendered":"What Red Flags Pushed You to Leave Your Therapist? Tell Us About It."},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"article-summary\" class=\"css-79rysd e1wiw3jv0\">A New York Times mental health reporter wants to hear why therapy didn\u2019t work out.<\/p>\n<section class=\"meteredContent css-1r7ky0e\">\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">People who have benefited from mental health therapy often <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/05\/16\/magazine\/does-therapy-work.html\" title>praise its upsides<\/a>, which can include developing better coping skills, stronger relationships and a calmer mind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But what happens when a therapist just isn\u2019t helping, or is actually causing harm? A psychologist may send up red flags for a client by yawning during sessions, running late every week or giving bad advice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Patients can report unethical behavior to a counselor\u2019s state licensing board, but there isn\u2019t always a recourse for someone who feels as though a therapist has been poorly trained or is inexperienced or just bad at the job. At this time, there is no federal agency responsible for regulating psychotherapy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Have you ever signed up for therapy but quit after ineffective or even offensive treatment? We want to hear from you. If you do reach out, a reporter may be in contact for permission to share your story in an upcoming article.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section data-testid=\"inline-interactive\" id=\"bad-therapists\" data-id=\"100000009546584\" data-source-id=\"100000009546584\" class=\"interactive-content interactive-size-scoop css-174j8de\">\n<header id=\"interactive-header\" class=\"css-obecq5 interactive-header\">\n<h2 id=\"interactive-headline\" class=\"css-4hk76s interactive-headline\">Tell us what happened<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"css-17ih8de interactive-body\" data-sourceid=\"100000009546584\" id=\"embed-id-100000009546584\">\n<div id=\"formpreview\" data-host=\"www.nytimes.com\" data-transloadit-id=\"a1ed58c066d211e5a6ee236a7c31b84b\" data-transloadit-signature=\"6d0f2cdf7ef5011a19f40f3a74b9ccb6b018cef4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New York Times mental health reporter wants to hear why therapy didn\u2019t work out.People who have benefited from mental health therapy often praise its upsides, which can include developing better coping skills, stronger relationships and a calmer mind.But what happens when a therapist just isn\u2019t helping, or is actually causing harm? A psychologist may send up red flags for a client by yawning during sessions, running late every week or giving bad advice.Patients can report unethical behavior to a counselor\u2019s state licensing board, but there isn\u2019t always a recourse for someone who feels as though a therapist has been poorly trained or is inexperienced or just bad at the job. At this time, there is no federal agency responsible for regulating psychotherapy.Have you ever signed up for therapy but quit after ineffective or even offensive treatment? We want to hear from you. If you do reach out, a reporter may be in contact for permission to share your story in an upcoming article.Tell us what happened<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9161,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9162,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159\/revisions\/9162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}