I was really worried about this too when i started my current job too. Only my appointment wasn't for therapy it was for addictions treatment. I knew going in that the company offered flex time, so in my last interview before I got the job, I said I have an ongoing committment that means i would have to take every Mon. afternoon off, I'm totally willing to make up the hours, will that be a problem? They said no. And they never asked what it was about.

I relapsed last summer and had to back into treatment, so now I'm in two aftercare groups - one Mon. afternoon, and Tues morning, plus I have to leave early on Tues to get to my T appointment and on Fri. to get to my volunteer job, so I'm the queen of flex time. i work a very bizarre schedule. We have a new management team, and I have a new boss - they fired my old boss, and I was really affraid that they'd take away my flex time, but I presented it as a fait accompli. On his first day, I handed him my schedule, and said this is when I'll be at work normally, I work flext time. Since I work very independently (I'm the company accountant) it doesn't really matter when i'm there, as long as I get the work done and meet all corporate deadlines, which I do. My current boss thinks I'm taking time off for MH treatment. He knows nothign about my addiction and I'm trying to keep it that way. I had to tell them about the MH stuff, because I had to switch pdocs, and my new pdoc won't see me before work, so I need time off mid day once a month for that appointment. So I had to explain it. But my boss was cool with it.

Congratulations on the new job.

--splitimage