If you were need of a couples therapist for your marriage, do you believe you could have a good therapist who has never been married?

If you needed a grief counselor for the lost of a spouse after a decades long relationship, could you have a grief counselor almost half your age who has never been married and has no kids?

I am asking because I'm helping someone evaluate therapist and I'm wondering if they are right to reject people who don't share life experiences or have a common life background?

Like I don't think I want a non-black therapist because being black is so core to my identity and I know there is certain stuff they just wouldn't understand.

That being said, I am allowung that I don't know much about therapy so the idea that the therapists should have shared experience could be totally off the mark and a good therapist is a good therapist.

What y'all think?


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