When friends ask me about finding a therapist the first distinction I try to make is whether it is for personal self-development, or for treating some kind of perceived condition. By the way, these things are not mutually exclusive. But here's the main reason why I think it's important to distinguish the two:

 It's really hard to go to therapy when you are actually unwell.

If it is for some kind of actual mental health disorder, I tend to suggest practical, physical or pharmacological solu...

I am ambivalent about the word “therapy”.

For me, it connotes the idea of something to be fixed and to be made better because there is something wrong, bad and diseased. That makes sense when talking about chemotherapy, or drug therapy, or physiotherapy.

Obviously, there many individuals who have experienced or currently has a mental health illness in which the appropriate word could be therapy, which denotes the act of medically caring for someone who is unwell. In this case, the word �...