Posted by raisinb on April 12, 2008, at 7:59:32
My therapist's practice is moving her office in a couple of weeks. We've been talking about it in sessions for awhile now, and I know it's very upsetting to me in a way I can't quite articulate. When she brings it up, the walls of the current office (where we've spent three years of sessions) seem to expand, leaving a lot of empty space in the room, and my feelings shut off.
My T doesn't seem to get it. She says "it's another change" and "inconsistency is difficult," but to me this is bigger than a missed session or a fight.
Yesterday I was writing about it in my journal and I started sobbing. I felt like I wanted to ask her for *something* from that office--like a piece of the carpet, or a strip of the wallpaper--but I just feel like that would be so silly. I just want something tangible, to show that all those sessions happened, that they were real (why do I feel like they aren't otherwise?)
But this is starting to feel like a major loss, and one that the person who's been in the room with me all this time doesn't feel.
Has anyone else gone through this? Any advice?
poster:raisinb
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