Posted by alexandra_k on February 19, 2005, at 19:43:36
In reply to Re: therapists and washing machines, posted by pinkeye on February 19, 2005, at 15:41:26
I only worked for 8 months with the t I missed the most. On our last day together (she was leaving the service) I asked if I could write to her. She seemed suprised but kind of pleased that I would ask (she had just finished her intern year). She was saying something about she couldn't quite remember her new home address... That gave me a bit of a shock. I said I would prefer to write to her at her new work address.
>It would be nice to know what he is as a person rather than a Dr.
I am not sure that that could / should really happen...
My t wrote back to me a couple of months later and said she needed to clarify about my writing to her. (Guess she got supervision on that one). She said it was okay for me to write and tell her how I was doing every now and then for perhaps a year because she understood that goodbyes were hard.
I don't think she was supposed to keep up contact with me.
I also had a p-doc that I liked a lot. He moved back to Canada. I wrote something for him and got my t to email it on to him (query about health insurance in Canada). He emailed a reply back to her and told her it was okay for her to print it out for me. His email address appeared on the top. I sent him an email maybe 4 months later. I said that if I didn't get a reply I would never email him again. I never got one.
I guess I was thinking that they are not supposed to keep up contact. But I don't know. Linehan said something about that being negotiable between the client and clinician so maybe it is okay.
Maybe they just didn't want to keep hearing from me. I dunno.
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