I highly suggest looking for a therapist who has experience with female ASD. Unfortunately, many professionals still refuse to believe that adult women can be on the spectrum. Eg my psychologist believes and supports me fully, while my psychiatrist refused to even discuss the possibility without even doing any test or anything. Simply because I know im supposed to smile and keep eye contact. Based on this, she wasn’t interested in listening to me and all i got was anxiety and childhood trauma. But thats OK. All i need is medication from her anyway. And I use my psychologist to discuss ASD struggles.
Sooo just what I would advice instead of going to a professional thats physically closest to you, try to read something about what they specialise in and how they work.
There definitely are many good professionals out there, but one needs to do some trial and error to find the one who clicks.
