Re:EMDR Level 2

Thank you for taking the time to respond. I have read your article and even printed it out. I also believe in the Patients Rights and have interviewed either by phone or in person prospective therapist. The frustrating part comes in when their experiance is questioned. One said she had 15 years plus experiance. About 7 weeks into my work with her, I learned that 9 of those years was as a mental health aid on a ward of the state hospiital, and that she had just completed her Level II training a few months before I began to work with her, and that she had just opened her privet practice at the same time.

Did she deliberatly misrepresent herself to me, or where my questions to vague to elicit the respopnse to give me the answers to my questions? All I know is that the process of finding a competent EMDR Therapist with the added skills of treating a client with an extensive hisotry of childhood abuse, retraumatized by a recent rape. I had been a very sucessful professional with a balanced life. Now I am divorced and on disability, and a non-custodial parent, with very little hope of recovering even 1/2 of what my life was like before this recent attack.

SO back to the point of my question - - - Even being an educated consumer has not proven helpful in my finding a therapist with the skills (or time within their practice) to be of any real help to me.

I will be staying with this current therapist for a while as he is as good as any I have meet. I have also considered that maybe my desire to return to work and get my life back, may make me a bit inpatient. But I have been seeing this therapist for just over 6 months and we are still on page one. (PS I do have very good coping skills and have done a lot of safe place work on my own, using just about most self hlep that I can)

Again Thank you for your response. I hope you have a great weekend.

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