Hi, Arli...nice to meet you!

I tend to be a talker so my hurdle in therapy is to make the best use of the time alloted.

What I do is to jot down things at home in a notebook as ideas or issues come to mind that I want to work on, then before I go to see my therapist (or psychiatrist for that mattter) I go over what I've written and make a list in the order of importance.

Since I've been in therapy for a long time, many times I don't use my list, but just having it with me makes me feel better that if I get stuck I can refer to it.

When I was in therapy years ago and some of the issues were too painful to talk about or I was embarrassed to bring them up to my T., I often wrote out my thoughts and handed them to my T., then left the room while he read them. That made it MUCH easier as then he would know how to help me and I didn't have to verbally initiate the conversation.

Therapy is hard work and sometimes it takes a bit of time to find the right therapist that one feels comfortable working with. But I've found the effort is really worth it.

My best to you - please feel free to pm me anytime.