Hi.
Welcome back to eat your crust podcast.
I'm Crystal.
And I'm Jisoo.
Remember in the beginning of the year, we did an episode to welcome the new year as usual.
And we talked a little bit about things that we wanted to work, work on or like, try to do in the new year.
And actually, one of the things that we both wanted to do was get into therapy.
It's almost been four months since the beginning of the year, so we're both in therapy now, and we thought we would just kind of talk about our experiences starting therapy and maybe break down some, like, expectations versus reality almost.
Yeah.
I think it's actually kind of cool that we're both in therapy now.
I know even though it was both of our New Year's resolutions, it can be kind of difficult to, like, go therapist shopping in a sense, and also even just muster the courage and the motivation to go out and find one for me.
I was lucky enough to have a close friend recommend her own therapist to me, and that actually cut down the, I guess, shopping process to be a lot shorter because honestly, my first attempt was kind of blindly scrolling through psychologytoday.com and trying to find someone who could take the form of payment I was hoping to pay in, which was FSA.
And my other factors were asian and also woman, ideally someone who is korean to kind of understand my cultural background a little bit.
And that narrowed it down to, like, almost no people.
Oh, man.
Surprising in the bay, there's not too many asian american therapists.
Yeah.
And I was kind of wondering, like, maybe to be listed on psychologytoday.com, you might have to pay or something.
Kind of like how sometimes if you want your restaurant to be featured on Yelp, you have to, like, do some sort of payment or registration or something like that.
So I was wondering, maybe they're just not on the system either way.