How to Find a Therapist in Salt Lake City, Utah

/ Christy Kobe, PLLC/

In my experience, most people don’t seek out therapy as a first resort when they are faced with a problem in their lives or relationships. You are, of course, an intelligent and self-sufficient person. So, you first use the coping skills you know of, such as researching the problem online, talking with friends or family, reading self-help books, exercising or maybe practicing yoga. And it is only when you have exhausted all of your coping skills and are still struggling, that you reach out to see if counseling or therapy might help!

So, how do you find a therapist in Salt Lake City, Utah?

I highly recommend asking friends and family members for the name and contact information of any therapists with whom they’ve had a good experience. A referral from someone you trust, who knows you and who can share their experiences is often the very best way to find a therapist who is likely to be a good fit for you as well.

Or you may choose to go online to do a Google search. However, in doing an online search, you may be overwhelmed by the number of different counselors and therapists in our area. It can be very challenging to determine from the many listed which counselors or therapists specialize in treating the problem you are struggling with, use the treatment method that will be the best fit for your unique problem, and which therapist you will feel most comfortable in working with. Perhaps most important, you’d like to know what other clients have experienced in working with these potential counselors and therapists in order to make an educated decision in selecting the therapist that is the best fit for you and what you’re looking for.

A great website and resource which provides this information about the counselors and therapists is www.healthgrades.com. Healthgrades provides specific information about each counselor’s specializations, conditions they treat, treatment approaches they utilize, and it provides anonymous client reviews to give you a better understanding of whether that counselor or therapist might be a good fit for you and your needs.

You can review my Healthgrades profile by clicking on this link below:

UPDATE and Public Service Announcement: Healthgrades.com has unfortunately chosen to contract with the disreputable and unethical tech company, BetterHelp, which is often falsely claiming that the therapists on the Healthgrades.com website are not accepting new patients and re-directing site visitors to contact BetterHelp therapists instead. I strongly recommend that you don’t use BetterHelp due to their selling clients’ names and diagnoses to third parties among other things. See this link for more info about the FTC case and this link for more info about the FTC order and $7.8 million fine of BetterHelp. Instead, of using BetterHelp, I strongly recommend you call or email the therapists you find on Healthgrades.com who sound like they might be a good fit for you in order to inquire directly about whether or not they are accepting new clients.