Getting A Therapist

Several people have emailed me asking for advice finding a therapist, and I worry I haven’t been much help. One of the advantages of being a psychiatrist is not having to worry about finding a psychiatrist. I know a few people in southern Michigan personally and can give some advice if you live there; outside that I’m stuck.

Luckily Gruntled and Hinged just wrote a good series of articles on how to find and contact a therapist for mental health problems. I’ll be referring those kinds of questions there in the future.

But I’ll also open up one question to anyone who can help: anyone want to volunteer the name of a good therapist whom they would recommend to other readers? Clearly geography is an issue here, so I would be most interested in knowing about tele-therapists or people in the Bay Area / New York City where a lot of SSC readers tend to congregate.

Bay Area:
Dr. Judith Sachs (recommended by David Chapman)

New York City:
Deb Shapiro (recommended by jayshap)

Greater Boston:
Integrative Psychology (recommended by Hibiscus)
Life Changes Group (recommended by Hibiscus)

Ann Arbor:
Rebecca Hatton (recommended by Paul Torek)
[Ask Scott privately for psychiatrist recommendations in Ann Arbor / Detroit]