Does Your Therapist Suck? 5 Signs it’s Time to Dump Them

Shannon Burton, SXI (they/she)
9 min readJul 26, 2020
Photo credit Adrea Piacqauadio

I knew I had to dump my therapist the day she forgot to light her scented candle before our session. The smell of weed hung in the air between our polite smiles.

This wouldn’t be a dealbreaker, normally. But it was unfortunately just one more sign on a growing list of indicators that Lydia* was no longer the right counselor for me. We’d been circling the drain for…

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Shannon Burton, SXI (they/she)

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