finding reliable medical practitioners

[Heather]

Hello,

We are looking for a gender critical therapist in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area.  Anyone have any referrals?

15 year daughter ROGD, current therapists did not want to help, now daughter is 16 years old and  we are back looking for new therapist.  I feel like we lost a year of finding the root cause of any underlying issues.

Concerned Mom

Tried to reply in the public space as I was not sure you had joined.  Did you find a therapist?  I may have one if she is taking new patients.  I will check.  I do believe from all our visits that she is taking a critical eye to my son's "diagnosis".  We together decided not to go to Genecis who will only affirm.

Did you find help in the DFW area? I need help with my daughter too.

This might be helpful. If you are looking for a psychiatric professional -- a therapist or a psychiatrist -- to help your child and your family, it's probably a good idea to work out for yourself what specific characteristics you are looking for, the most important of which is an agreement between you and the professional you are "auditioning" on what the job is. 

It's like hiring a contractor to repair your home. If you hire someone to fix your plumbing, but the candidate is only knowledgeable about (and interested in) the roof, you've got to be honest with yourself about whether your reason for thinking the problem is a broken pipe is based on the fact that you actually saw water actually pouring out of a broken pipe, or you need to be open to exploring the possibility that you are wet in your own home because of a leaky roof, that your initial assumption that all that water you've noticed is really not coming out of a broken pipe but originates from a hole in the roof. The professional worth her salt is capable of convincing you of that fact about your specific house, and not just expecting you go along with her theory about all houses.

In other words, you need to figure out if the mental professional you are thinking of hiring has roughly the same criteria for distinguishing between reality and illusion that you have, and can explain to you the difference. Also, the professional should have respect for you as a parent, when it comes to your child. You are someone who has been on the scene much longer than anyone else has, which makes you a valuable source of information. If you get the sense the candidate therapist/psychiatrist doesn't respect your knowledge about your child (even if there is general knowledge about psychology you may lack that this professional can provide), treat that as a red flag.

So here's Dr. Steven Levine's presentation at the GenSpect conference on what good therapy is, which I think might be helpful to watch before you interview one. I've pulled out a few quotes from his presentation that might be useful. 

Denver: Key Elements of Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation & Psychotherapy with Dr Stephen Levine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM3bPA80...x=8&t=254s

Conversational therapy is a conversation with somebody who knows more about the general problem -- whom I call 'Doctor"' -- and the patient, who's the world's expert on the patient's life. 'That doctor' and 'this doctor' are having a prolonged conversation over time to teach both of them what the other knows.

My job is to improve the child's function, to diminish his or her symptoms, and to improve their capacity to socialize and to think clearly.

Youthful trans identities are creative intrapsychic adaptations with future outcomes that represent limited life possibilities.