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How to find the right therapist

Parent to Alex

We have a 15-year-old diagnosed with ASC and over the past few months they've suffered from sever depression and anxiety. I'm a bit fed up with getting nowhere via the NHS and want to find a private therapist. Have searched on this website for a therapist in my local area, but it's only giving a local specialist school as a result. Where do I find the correct therapist? Is there a (reputable) website for such things?
Thanks.

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  • oh wow its ASC now? i cant keep up with the changes to the naming of this.
    anyways, correct, the NHS is totally useless and im actually surprised your kid got a diagnosis as they usually never catch it and then when you think of getting it seen to they put you in a 8 year waiting list just for diagnosis, so hes done pretty well out of the useless system so far really. but it is incredibly useless. and i fear for getting older and having heart conditions because i know the nhs will leave me to die and tell me to wait years to get a a exploding heart seen to when that happens with age inevitably. 

    but as for therapists, id actually recommend doing a google search of therapists, councillors and other stuff like that you can list, google search often will bring up a local map of all the local services near you that provide those services. theres alot of types you can list and search for too, alot of definitions to use in search. they should all be as good as one another really, if its talk therapy its all equally useless so all of that will all be the same.

    for anxiety and depression though isnt it better for the gp to prescribe anti-depressants? they also have a anti-anxiety effect too in them.... im not sure whether they dont prescribe them to your kid due to age limitations though if there are age limits on them? but that id say would be the usual go to thing for those 2 symptoms.

  • in reply to Caelus

    Thanks! Actually the ASC diagnosis was a private one. I was mainly referring to the NHS dealing with the anxiety and depression. My kid has been prescribed Sertraline by the CAMHS Crisis Team psychiatrist, but they recommend it goes hand in hand with therapy. But of course you can't get the therapy on the NHS (or there's a 2+ year waiting list) and the NHS psychiatrist won't/can't recommend a private therapist. 
    I've had a Google for therapists, but was wondering if there was a more reputable way of finding someone.

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  • in reply to Caelus

    Thanks! Actually the ASC diagnosis was a private one. I was mainly referring to the NHS dealing with the anxiety and depression. My kid has been prescribed Sertraline by the CAMHS Crisis Team psychiatrist, but they recommend it goes hand in hand with therapy. But of course you can't get the therapy on the NHS (or there's a 2+ year waiting list) and the NHS psychiatrist won't/can't recommend a private therapist. 
    I've had a Google for therapists, but was wondering if there was a more reputable way of finding someone.

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  • in reply to Parent to Alex

    ah so they have antidepressants, i think they are said to only work a few months after starting taking them and have to never miss a dose.

    and yeah no one ever recommends a private place unless that private place is paying people to recommend them, in which the ones paid to be recommended will usually be overburdened and slow. so its likely a case of trail and error, finding by google and perhaps seeing if theres reviews for each one and comparing the reviews. sometimes you find some with good reviews then another with bad reviews. so going by public reviews is a good way to narrow them down.