Posted by Waterlily on April 29, 2004, at 15:32:06
In reply to Therapy homework, posted by Aphrodite on April 26, 2004, at 12:52:25
I thought mine was the only one who didn't follow up on stuff like that. Seems to be the norm around here.
I actually had my last therapy appointment today (I graduated!!!yeah!!!). She asked me if there was anything that I didn't like or thought could be done differently. I told her that I didn't like it when at the end of the sessions she would say "We'll talk about (insert subject) next time." Then the next time she wouldn't say anything about it. Of course, therapist that she is, she asked me "How did that make you feel?". I told her I realized that we were in a professional relationship and that she has a lot of patients so I had no great ideas that I ought to mean a whole lot to her, but that when she didn't bring up what we were supposed to talk about it made me feel like she didn't care. She said that it was a good thing that I told her this, that I would sometimes get into really heavy subjects at the end of sessions and she didn't want to make it seem like she didn't want to discuss what I was talking about. She would then forget what it was we were supposed to discuss since my appointments were only every two weeks. She said that although it is a professional relationship, it is a unique one, a very personal one, and that it's important to feel like your therapist cares about you. Now I wish I'd said something about it a long time ago. Would have cleared things up and made me feel more secure.
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