Posted by raisinb on June 9, 2008, at 9:37:24
In reply to Letting myself be vulnerable, calling my therapist, posted by brassneck on June 8, 2008, at 9:01:47
It's fine to ask, I think. Because therapists have widely differing phone policies, most clients are probably confused about it, understandably.
My therapist never mentioned it either. About two years into working with her, she mentioned that I never called her. I blew up and said, "why didn't you tell me it was okay? How am I supposed to know that?" She "thought it was assumed" that I could call her anytime, but she agreed and said it was something she should have clarified in the beginning. So I could have been calling her once a week for two years, but I just assumed that since she hadn't said anything, I couldn't, and I'd been stewing about it all that time :). Better to clarify these things in the beginning.
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