Posted by TherapyGirl on March 4, 2011, at 22:10:33
So I know the last I posted things were going well with new T. Then we had a session where she spent more than half of the time complaining about her billing issues (she has to go through another therapist, it's a pain in her a**, blah, blah, blah). I didn't enjoy it, but thought I'd give her a pass. The next session she spent most of the session telling me about her half sister having a man with a disability move in with her and how concerned she is about that. I work with people with disabilities so I spent most of that session educating her. The session after that we spent talking mostly about recent insurance issues (my organization has brought HR in house, which means I had COBRA for one month and now it's a mess). It turns out she wanted me to do all of the work on that, even for checks she had received. I had to call insurance and get check numbers and clear dates rather than her just rechecking her records. WHATever.
This week, I got a call from my brother early Monday morning because my father was dying. On the trip to their state, I called and left her a message that my father was bad off, I was headed out of town and would not be there for my Tuesday session. At that point, I didn't know how long I would be gone.
My father died an hour after I arrived. When we got back to my parents' house, I checked my email. New T sent an email basically saying, "I got your message. Sorry to hear about your dad," and then in the SAME PARAGRAPH she talked about billing issues.
I emailed her that my father died and she wrote back offering me a phone session at, of course, full price. No thanks.
That is the very last straw. I think there's a maturity issue here, as well as a total focus on money that I am not used to and can't reconcile with. I'm planning to email her next week and cancel remaining sessions on the books and start to look for another T. I'm not sad, not even really mad, just annoyed.
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thread:980113
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