what is the best way to gret your therapist to believe you

Hi - feeling embarrassed now as all the top list of the posts has my name - and I'm new too, sorry, this is v unusual 4 me, I so rarely even go on the PC, maybe I'm just over-excited today! Just wanted to say good to hear someone from UK on here - maybe I'm totally wrong but I feel most are from US and so have a different system. MY POINT if I can stop blethering and get to it is that I had a lot of problems finding a good therapist then I rung a helpline and they told me to look at the BACPS web-site - actually not sure if this is the right acronym, but if you ever are interested, please post me back and I will try to get it for you - sorry if there's a gap, I'm a bit untogether at the mo and it can take me a few days to come back to the board here. Anyway, I have just got complex PTSD dx, and so I just asked the therapists when I phoned them, did they have experience of treating this. Whatever your dx is, if you have one or believe in them anyway, it's a useful shorthand to find someone a) who has heard of it and b)got experience treating it, ie believes in the great distress it is so hard to express damage done to you psychologically when young causes - or whatever, it doesn't matter per se, the point is emotional turmoil and pain, and needing someone you can trust and respect to let you let them know in your own way. Try Alice Miller's list of questions to ask a therapist. (it's on the Net). It's hard to feel a therapist isn't helping, and to get the strength to change if you feel you need to. Worth also, though, checking for sure - it's not your own defences resisting him/her first - (how, I think time and your intuition in the end will know). I got a good one in Seaford, but I did have a few choices. Pretty sure there will be ones near you - however, as ever, I know, ????s and time big problems to face too!! Anyway, all the best - Daisymay xxxxx