Posted by pegasus on June 20, 2011, at 8:23:14
In reply to Re: cooperative policy setting in therapy, posted by emmanuel98 on June 19, 2011, at 21:15:18
For me, the biggest issue in the power differential is about termination. My experience with Ts is that they get to make all of the decisions about what happens after that (and even when/how the termination happens - in at least one case). Including whether I get to communicate at all with them. Knowing that is making it very hard for me to allow myself to connect deeply with my current T. It just feels like too big of a risk.
I understand that it's best for him to choose his own office, and what hours he's available and his fees, etc. I have no issue with that.
I do like the idea of agreeing together about contact between sessions, though. Although that has not been much of an issue with my current T. Except that I don't like how he presents it as a done deal that he's totally figured out already. So, we might have a chat about that.
I'm meeting him tomorrow, so I'll let you know what we agree to cooperatively decide.
- p
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