Posted by crushedout on April 10, 2004, at 0:13:57
I was only scheduled to see my T once next week because she's taking a day off, but last week I asked her if she could find an extra session for me so we could meet twice. She said she was booked so I asked her to let me know if anything opened up and she said she would.So, she emailed me today and told me she had a cancellation for Monday and that she'd pencilled me in. But she also said that she was "doing this especially so that we have time
to talk about what is bothering you about me."Now this is precisely what I *wanted* to talk about, but the way she said this disturbs me because it feels like she's giving me the session on a *condition*, when she had already agreed to give me a session if one opened up, before I even brought up the whole termination issue. And now I feel really stressed out. I don't know what to tell her is "bothering" me "about" her, and I feel enormous pressure to come up with some kind of good explanation.
I can't even quite put my finger on what seems wrong with this picture, but I almost feel like this email is the place I should start in addressing the issue. Am I crazy? Is there something wrong with the way she framed the offer of the session she had already agreed to give me?
I feel really confused.
poster:crushedout
thread:334773
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