Posted by alexandra_k on July 11, 2005, at 6:03:41
In reply to therapy tomorrow, posted by alexandra_k on July 11, 2005, at 5:22:24
>With regards to ACC, I informed you on the phone before you came to see me that I was not taking any more ACC clients.
Then why on earth did you decide to spend the session on the phone to ACC?
And that is kind of my point: we didn't have a session. You didn't ask me anything along the lines of
- why did you want to come and see me?
- what would you like to talk about in the time we have together?
- what would you like to know about me?
- what would you like to tell me about yourself?
I also do not appreciate being pressured to 'perform'. It was at that point that I was seriously beginning to doubt your professionalism and I left - especially if that 'session' is the way you typically conduct first sessions with clients. Especially if that is a fairly reliable indicator of what future sessions would be like.
I'm fairly boggled that you could consider that to be a session. It was a pre-session to find out whether we would be able to work together. Except it wasn't even that because you didn't even conduct it in that manner. I fail to see why I should pay you for wasting both of our time. I have no earthly idea what made you think that it was acceptable to spend the session on the phone. To persistently and repeatedly ask me about abuse. To not ask whether I had anything to say but show rather more interest in whether they had anything to say.
I'm glad the funding didn't come through.
I left that session knowing we wouldn't be able to work together.
Not if that is any indication of the way things are likely to go.
Do whatever you think fair about the money.
I do not think it is fair to charge me for that.
Good day.
Oh well its done now I suppose.
I'm also tempted to write the lady who did the assessment (and recomended her) to tell her my POV and suggest that she not reccomend her to anybody else.
Maybe thats going a bit far...
But I think I could tell her my concerns. I'm sure she'd take what I have to say with a grain of salt anyways. And... She might have heard of somebody else.
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