Posted by Dinah on January 12, 2005, at 18:51:17
In reply to T calling between sessions...what do you think?, posted by Speaker on January 12, 2005, at 15:38:48
FWIW, and mind you, my therapist is awful on the phone, but if there's anything worse than him on the phone when I call him, it's him on the phone when he calls me even if we agreed on the exact time of the call in. I just am not in the proper frame of mind, and it's usually a real let down even by his standards.
BTW, my therapist has carefully cultivated his bad phone technique as a way to cut down on "unneccessary" between session calls. Once I proved myself willing to pay, he's tried to be better, but old habits are hard to break. That doesn't mean he doesn't care, exactly. Although he's not exactly a warm fuzzy, he is very caring in his own way.
I figure you have to judge the relationship as a whole. (But yes, it still bugs me.)
poster:Dinah
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