Posted by emmanuel98 on December 10, 2010, at 20:07:34
In reply to Re: busy, busy therapist, posted by pegasus on December 10, 2010, at 17:25:15
Of course it matters to you and of course you should talk about it to him. My p-doc says most therapists see about 20-25 clients a week. 30-40 is a lot, so maybe there are people he sees twice a week. But my p-doc (who said, when I raised this that (1) he couldn't pay his rent if I was his only patients and (2) that maybe in time I would feel like I could share him) pointed out that having 20-25 patients who you see regularly and talk to every week is very different from teaching (which I did for many years). When you teach you have maybe 75-100 students and don't interact with them personally on a regular basis.
I raised this because I always forget what students want. If someone says they need to reschedule an exam because they are going away that week and then they come up to me and ask me when they can take the exam at a later date, I completely forget that they asked in the first place. I have too many students and lose track of them.
Therapy is different. He's talking to patients for 50 minutes at a time, carefully listening, keeping track from week to week of each one.
It's really hard to imagine that your T has other patients who feel as intensely toward him as you do, but he does. Bringing it up and talking it out will help you feel better about it.
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