Posted by Dinah on April 1, 2008, at 21:05:19
In reply to Your Therapist's Web Site, posted by DAisym on April 1, 2008, at 19:37:13
Ick!
My therapist is proudly computer illiterate. I think he would consider putting up a website to be giving in to the forces of darkness.
But I have a similar problem in that my therapist's areas of expertise are different from my issues, and he's currently studying to be a sex addictions expert. I can't help but thinking that's probably more interesting than I am, or more to his liking.
My therapist would say, and probably has, that there aren't many clients willing to do the hard work in therapy that I'm willing to do, or go as deep as I've been willing to go. And that while he might not be able to make a living dealing only with clients like me, he really enjoys our work together and finds it very fulfilling.
And I get the added bonus of knowing that he isn't mixing me up with his other clients because I'm unique.
Still, it can't be nice to have the fact that he has other clients, and is in fact actively looking for more, put so obviously in your line of vision. I don't blame you for being upset. I know I'd find something upsetting just in my therapist's self presentation, in that it might not fit perfectly with who I think he is. Not to mention seeing him juxtaposed next to his wife in an obvious way. Too much a collision of worlds.
I think therapists need to be really really careful in this internet age to be sensitive to all of that.
poster:Dinah
thread:821049
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