anyone around to help me think through situation re. kid therapy?

I am trying to think something through and will probably not keep this post up for very long.

We have been looking for help for my child, who has experienced distressing symptoms related to a neuro condition (hesitant to post details but likely a combination of classic presentation of [condition] co-occurring with rarer subtype requiring specific training and approach). The issue waxes and wanes and isn't bad now, but it is likely to come back.

There are few professionals around here qualified to work with this neuro condition. We have done an intake with one and are waitlisted for services. She is a nurse practitioner with decades of experience in this area who will not have openings until next year.

An immediate opening just popped up for another one. My main issue at the moment is she is an LCPC. I can't tell how much of this is my issue and how much is legit. I have worked with five LCPCs personally and have never encountered one who demonstrated any critical thinking ability at all. This one seems highly trained -- although there is a key approach I am not seeing listed, and I will have to ask about that. With my kid's complex presentation they are likely to need a modified or mixed approach. (I will run any communication through my husband who is good at converting my bluntness into inoffensive bs-y office speak.)

Intakes are a lot for my kid and I don't want to put them through that for no good reason. I should say, my kid wants help and is completely on board. This kid is open and trusting (trusting is not a plus in my book, with these people) but not easily led like my other kid, and I think they might speak up if they don't like something, but they are just a kid.

It concerns me that the LCPC is asking me about session frequency right off the bat. She hardly knows anything about this kid; she has not even done an intake yet. It makes me think she is viewing intake as all therapists do, with the entitled assumption that this person can and should work with her regardless of fit, rather than centering the question of how to best meet the client's needs (whether that means working with her or not). But maybe I am being hypervigilant here? Maybe she is just asking what we are able to afford?

I don't know much about the nursing model of care in which the first practitioner is presumably trained, but it's got to be better than the traditional therapist approach, right?

It's my kid, y'all. We're supporting him as best we can, but we are over our heads with this one, but I feel like I'm throwing him to the wolves.

Yes, this throwaway username is an obvious one.