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Old May 26, 2010, 12:05 PM
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Originally Posted by peaches100 View Post
Hi Googley,

First off, . You sound like a bundle of nerves right now. Understandable. I would be too.

My first thought after "Oh, poor Googley!" is that it sounds like you may be jumping to worst case scenarios in your mind, which is scaring you even more. Why would your t would drop you just because you're seeing her once per month? Unless she has given you some reason to think that she would drop you, i would say don't worry about it. Or, if you can't stop worrying about it, ask her directly if seeing her less often would lessen her commitment to working with you? I'm sure it won't.

If this decision to go monthly was rather sudden, i can understand why things feel "hanging open" and unresolved. It sounds like you're wondering if once monthly sessions will enable you to continue working on the issues you've been working on with your t. Could you tell her that in order to feel comfortable about this change, you need her to explain to you how this change in frequency of sessions will affect your therapy? How will you proceed with regard to your issues? etc? It sounds like you need to know what to expect and/or how things will change. Change is hard for me, and if i were you, I would need more information also, so i would know what to expect.
It was really sudden. Like two weeks ago and then she was gone last week on vacation. I always end up running out of money at the end of the school term because of loans and so I decided I can't deal with the stress of never being sure if I am going to have enough money until the next set of loans are dispersed. Hopefully I can save up money over the summer to see her in the fall more, but I have two other large expenditures of money starting in the fall. So I don't know if I can afford it then either. I HATE money. I think we will end up talking a lot about this on Thursday, but I'm still really nervous about it. I'm afraid I'll just go in and start bawling like last session and hardly anything will get done. And then it will be forever until I see her again. And there are all these other things I need to talk about too that have nothing to do with the change. I hate this all.