Evidently I have no choice in what to look for. I'm simply told who I'm going to be a patient of. I hate insurance and HMOs

When you can fart around them! lol

OOPS, thought you were referring to a mate! lol

I look for someone who is at least as intelligent as I am (spelling aside). I do not like to be talked down to. I've read books, and I have prayed, and I don't need my therapist to talk down to me as if I am a fifth grader.

My pdoc is my best therapist.

for me...lou says it best:)

i mean...lou says it ..what i need in a therapist...hugs

didn't mean to say the word "best" like i said it....just meant what works for me...everyone needs different things. (dah) ...sorry xoxox

oh god guys, sorry..now i'm like saying things and not meaning for them to come out they way they do..i mean dah, for me..anyway...i better stop talking, i'[m not making sense..hugs

Someone you feel comfortable with and you feel you are addressing issues important to your healing
I think their imput is very important as well as long as it is you not them that are benifiting
I had a therapist that wanted to debate my beliefs and Faith. Not his job

Intelligence. I could tell my first visit that my Therapist was extremely smart, not like some of the others I'd had. She gives me a lot of feedback but she is also very kind and supportive. I once told her, "You are a great Therapist, but if it were not for me you couldn't have done a darn thing!" She replied, "That's the absolute truth and don't you ever forget it!" We get along splendidly.

In a word: Sanity.