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Good vs. Bad Mental Health Professionals
Good vs. Bad Mental Health Professionals
My five years of depression were a hellish experience, but they DID leave me with profound knowledge and the sharpest BS detector on Earth.
All those years of incompetent therapists and so-called "mental health experts", before finally finding Lawrence Leyton's The Serenity Method, and later Tim Han's LMA Course—taught me exactly how to tell a good professional from a bad one.
So here is my personal checklist of how to tell the difference between a real mental health professional and a fraud.
1. Do they take initiative, or do they expect you to tell them what to do?
A good mental health professional will know what to do, and take the lead from the get-go. A bad one will expect you to take the lead — basically asking you to walk them through what's supposed to be their job.
I can't tell you how many times I was asked the question: "What do you want me to do?" and made to feel like the bad guy for not knowing the answer beyond "Cure my
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