17/07/2025
1. Difficulty finding the right therapist:
What you can do:
This is a real concern because success can often rely on a healthy therapeutic alliance being formed between a practitioner and a client.
As a client, you can have a brief consultation in order to gauge who you might find easy to trust and open up to. A professional with whom you can easily connect and build a healthy rapport may be a good sign. Also, inquiring about the extent of their training and experience can be worth it.
2. Uncertainty about effectiveness:
What to bear in mind:
The effectiveness of therapy relies on both the competence of the practitioner and the collaboration of the participant. When both ends fit nicely, results do come surely. Sometimes, effectiveness can depend on the quality of exposure to sessions.
3. Cost:
What to bear in mind:
Cost is an important determinant, really. But again, competence is also important. This doesn't mean that a highly priced service will be effective or that a moderately priced service won't be effective. Fact is, moderate can be subjective, same way cheap or expensive can be subjective. In the end, the absolute value derived from the sessions may justify what you feel about the price. With therapy, though, the absolute value of it often may not show up until after the passage of time and/or sessions.
What you could do is, rather than allow cost to get you to put therapy off entirely, you could actually stagger the sessions. Plan for like, once in 1, 2 or 3 weeks, and keep pace as you can.
4. Stigma:
What to bear in mind:
If you are struggling emotionally or mentally, it doesn't mean you are sick. Psychological well-being is as important as physical well-being.
If you're not ready to tell others yet, you do not have to let others in on the fact that you're seeing a therapist.
5. Time commitment:
What to bear in mind:
Not every psychological intervention necessarily demands a long-term program.
The time it takes to see progress is very relative. And it typically differs between people. You can start to feel relief on the same day. A shift in belief and behaviour change typically takes a bit more time through dedication.
