Posted by fallsfall on January 25, 2004, at 11:55:45
In reply to Just a thought, posted by All Done on January 25, 2004, at 11:27:54
My therapist has made it clear that he only wants to find out things about me when I am sitting in his office. He doesn't want to read journalling or Babble or anything else - because he wants to experience my emotions in conjunction with the information. So I seriously doubt if he would Google me.
In the beginning we did "history" for a couple of sessions (maybe even 5 or 6 all together). I would tell him about people, or events or whatever. He asked some questions, but not too many. Periodically we come to something that I haven't given him background on and he may ask a question or two. I think that he believes that what I choose to tell him about is as important as the content of what I tell him. So he doesn't want to ask questions and get me talking about stuff that isn't important to ME. When he does ask questions they are similar to "Tell me about your mother" - not very specific.
So are they interested in knowing more?
My old therapist came to watch me skate in an ice show. She had been a student in my adult skating class before we started therapy and I had been not skating for a year or more, and was just coming back to skating. She only stayed for my number (which was right at the beginning), not for the rest of the show. I loved that she came. But it probably was not wise of her to have done so - don't you love those boundaries...
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