Posted by Elizabeth31 on October 21, 2009, at 18:12:30
In reply to Too chatty in session?, posted by Recently A on October 20, 2009, at 23:18:54
Hi! I just was going to tell you that I can totally relate to your post and from my experiences there perhaps is a subconscious element here that is trying to surface-sometimes it's difficult to figure out the obvious and maybe your therapist recognizes your behavior pattern and is allowing you to grow by forcing you to confront your feelings in therapy with her directly. Have you thought about telling her exactly what you wrote? Maybe you're at a point where you no longer need to be in therapy? I felt like my therapy had hit a platou and was not helping me so instead of continuing to go meet and try to fill space and even create drama in my therapist's relationship with me wanting more attention and then leave feeling like this was a waste of time--that's not a good approach by the way :) I would even suggest confronting the completion of your therapy and setting a last appointment to say goodbye instead of keeping things around and drifting back and forth with regular appointments. I bet if you were to simply think about your life and write some goals and things you'd like to accomplish in your life (work, family, friends, hobbies, travel etc) there might be ways your therapist could help you reach an even higher level of overall satisfaction with your life:). And if you're done and there is nothing left to justify continueing therapy-then congrats! You should feel good about yourself for meeting your objectives and completing therapy. I bet there are a lot of people such as myself reading this who wish we were in your position-hope that helps sorry it's so all over the place!
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