Posted by Dinah on October 16, 2003, at 8:42:10
In reply to How Do you Start each session?, posted by DaisyM on October 15, 2003, at 23:25:44
I think I broke him of asking me what I wanted to talk about today. I hated that one. Sometimes he'll just sit down and sort of give me an "ok, I'm ready look", or sometimes he'll start with a comment on the weather or something, or sometimes he'll ask me how i'm doing or how my week went. A lot of times, I'll start myself.
I have this little routine of asking how he's doing, and I've told him that's his cue for telling me if he's going to be leaving town for a few days, or shutting down his practice, or something awful, in addition to his more generic answers.
I used to worry all session that I was going to hear an "Oh, by the way...." so now I try to get it over with at the beginning.
poster:Dinah
thread:269868
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