Individuals should evaluate a therapist's approach and progress within the first three to four sessions.

“Yeah, and I think that's why word of mouth is important, right? If someone you trust tells you, hey, this is a good person that says a lot, right? It already makes the pretest probability, is quite high. But yes, it's interesting to see when like people have a therapist or they called their insurance and they're assigned a therapist. This thought that like, oh, that's the person I have to have now. And it's like, no, you should look at that like anyone you'd be interviewing, right, for a job, right?”