Posted by gardenergirl on November 17, 2005, at 7:56:54
In reply to Re: Cutting down from 2times a week to once?? » gardenergirl, posted by Shortelise on November 14, 2005, at 13:27:03
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> Is it not always a question of what is best for the client?
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> If you were in *need* of therapy twice a week, would it not continue to be so?Well, I do think that clinically, twice a week has been a very good decision. I don't know that I would say I "needed" it, but it definitely helped the process develop faster. Although maybe I did need it in order to get to a deeper place. ??
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> If your therapist has deemed that you no longer need to see him twice a week, why is it not being discussed in those terms?He made a point to tell me that this was not a clinical decision. It's not about what's best for me, but rather it's entirely due to the clinic's needs. And considering I go for free, I can understand that they have a duty and mission to serve other students in need. It doesn't seem "fair" (ewww, I hate that word!) if I get to go twice a week and someone else has to wait. I totally get that. But it still stinks.
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> But to go from twice to once a week is big. It can easily represent the slow move toward termination, and that could certainly provoke (for me, obviously) a case of the heebie jeebies.Yeah, this isn't really about termination. I had been thinking maybe I was "ready" to go to once a week, but I also think maybe I was avoiding something. It's interesting that I tend to "run away" or feel like it, anyway, whenever we have one of those caring and golden moments.
>Thanks,
gg
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