Practical guides to finding therapists, psychiatrists, and other mental health providers in the United States — from matching with the right specialist to evaluating credentials before your first appointment.
By the time Devon and Priya walked into a Boston counseling office with their partner Jules, they had already burned through two therapists. The first one, well-meaning, kept asking when one of them was going to “pick” the other. The second framed their five-year relationship as a phase Devon would outgrow once he “did the … Read more
Marisol had spent eleven years managing Ehlers-Danlos syndrome before she finally tried therapy in Tucson. The first counselor told her that her chronic pain was “psychosomatic” and suggested she try yoga. The second one kept asking, with kind eyes, when she planned to “get back to normal.” By the third intake, Marisol cried in the … Read more
Marisol had spent eleven years managing Ehlers-Danlos syndrome before she finally tried therapy in Tucson. The first counselor told her that her chronic pain was “psychosomatic” and suggested she try yoga. The second one kept asking, with kind eyes, when she planned to “get back to normal.” By the third intake, Marisol cried in the … Read more
Eight months after the stroke that took the right side of his face and most of his short-term memory, Marcus sat in his Cleveland kitchen and tried to explain to his wife why he had cried during a paint commercial. He used to be the kind of man who fixed things. Now he could not … Read more
Eight months after the stroke that took the right side of his face and most of his short-term memory, Marcus sat in his Cleveland kitchen and tried to explain to his wife why he had cried during a paint commercial. He used to be the kind of man who fixed things. Now he could not … Read more
Desmond, a forty-one-year-old high school history teacher in Cleveland, Ohio, lost the central vision in both eyes to a rare retinal disease over the course of fourteen months. He kept teaching. He kept walking his daughter to the bus. What he could not keep doing was the thing he had done every Sunday for two … Read more
Desmond, a forty-one-year-old high school history teacher in Cleveland, Ohio, lost the central vision in both eyes to a rare retinal disease over the course of fourteen months. He kept teaching. He kept walking his daughter to the bus. What he could not keep doing was the thing he had done every Sunday for two … Read more
Tasha was a Division I middle-distance runner at the University of Oregon, the kind of athlete whose senior season was supposed to end at the NCAA championships in Eugene. Instead, in March of her final year, an MRI showed a stress fracture in her sacrum that wouldn’t heal in time. The team doctor told her … Read more
Tasha was a Division I middle-distance runner at the University of Oregon, the kind of athlete whose senior season was supposed to end at the NCAA championships in Eugene. Instead, in March of her final year, an MRI showed a stress fracture in her sacrum that wouldn’t heal in time. The team doctor told her … Read more
Reggie had been a paramedic in Phoenix for twenty-two years before the call that finally broke him. It was not, in the end, the worst call he had ever run. It was a routine cardiac arrest in a quiet neighborhood, an elderly man whose wife stood in the doorway and asked Reggie what she should … Read more