I was just wondering what others thoughts were on seeing more than one therapist at a time. I'm asking because I may be spending time overseas next year, and I'm thinking about seeing two different people simultaneously. One is American whom I've worked with a little bit in the past, and the other is an Englishwoman I had an introductory "chat" with last time I was there.

I feel (I'm tricultural) that different people can address different parts of my experience, based on their background and psychology, that the others might not be able to, or at least not nearly as effectively.

I know Ts don't like this but I can't help suspecting that it's partially because it's a hangover from Freudianism (when the transference was of primary importance, which I don't think is how most therapists work these days) and then simply the fact that they don't like sharing clients (and clients' revenues).

Am I being too suspicious/skeptical? One thing that I think argues in my favor is that presumably no therapist would advise against group therapy for someone also in individual, and this is another "therapeutic influence", so there's no reason why it wouldn't be ok to see two individual Ts at the same time.

A big part of asking is also that I want to do it anyway, but I don't want to feel like I have to hide something from either one (I struggle with issues of compulsive confessing.)