Already in therapy
For when you're seeing a therapist and have questions about how it's going. These pages cover whether it's working, how long it usually takes, why it can stall, how to raise something with your therapist, and how to tell when it's finished. If therapy has felt unsafe or harmful, when therapy goes wrong covers what you can do.
- Is my therapy working?How to tell whether therapy is working: what progress tends to look like, what to compare against, tracking it with your therapist, and what to do if it isn't.
- How long does therapy take?How long therapy tends to take, what changes it, what Medicare's ten sessions do and don't mean, and what to ask at the start.
- Why therapy stallsHow to tell an ordinary slow patch from a real stall, why some people take longer, eight common reasons therapy stops moving, and what to raise with your therapist about each.
- Telling your therapistWhy almost everyone holds something back, what the research says about raising it, the words to use for several different situations, what your therapist will probably do, and how to tell a poor fit from something you shouldn't have to raise at all.
- When therapy is finishedHow people and their therapists usually decide therapy is finished, what a planned ending involves, what to do when sessions or money run out however you're paying, when your therapist raises it, if you'd rather just stop, and going back later.