In reality, working from home usually means lying in bed scrolling through Instagram and emails while wondering just how long you can procrastinate before feeling guilty enough to get up and brush your teeth. The rest of the day is a blur of making coffee, sitting at the kitchen table attempting to get work done, and pretending to be productive all while resisting the urge to “take a break” and binge literally anything on Netflix. Working from home blurs the lines between work and life; your day isn’t the standard 9-to-5 as your time is no longer defined by arriving to and leaving from a clear-cut workspace. Instead, since you are always at your place of work, it feels like you have a full 24 hours to get work done, and any minute not productively spent is a minute wasted.
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We’re not going to try to sell you on therapy. Because trying to convince you to see a therapist is like a nutritionist trying to convince us to drink more water; we already know it’s a proven necessity. We know it’s good for us. We know it’s an inconvenient lifestyle change that requires at least some effort for some seemingly intangible (but actually incredibly concrete) benefits that we’ll reap at a vague point in the future.
But often, finding the right therapist isn’t merely a minor inconvenience, but an actual deterrent from seeking out the help we need. And it starts with the process of just finding any therapist, which will invoke more Googling than those random pains fueling your health anxiety (just a little joke for my fellow hypochondriacs!). Since you can already read about all the ways therapy will enrich your life on this site [link to something] and others, we thought we’d start with the basics: how the fuck to find a good therapist. It’s not as impossible a task as it seems—we promise.
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