New to post here...

On this subject, I've always found this strange... that she has other clients... and what my place within them all are. Funny thing is my kids also see her and weekly, but for whatever reason, we are scheduled every other week. I don't ask the kiddos what they talk about other than generalities... but it's just an odd feeling to share so much with her... more than I have any other person... but not knowing if what I say is meaningful or meaningless to her. It honestly kind of drags me down rather than pulling me up. This whole "other client" thing kind of came out in the last session where she started talking about wanting to go over some of my homework, which I thought was odd because I hadn't done any in a while. She pulled out some document and started to ask questions about it, so I asked to see it... and it had someone else's handwriting on it... she got real flustered... realizing she had placed someone else's stuff in my file. I didn't get upset or anything... made sure she realized that I understood that she was very busy and sees lots of other people... but then, she basically just said "what do you want to talk about?"... which I took as meaning she wasn't really prepared to see me because she thought we were going to talk about whatever was on that other person's stuff.

Anyway, obviously they are busy... and I'm having trouble separating a "real relationship" with this "therapeutic relationship" thing. I honestly just want someone to talk to that will talk to me... but then I guess this isn't how the whole therapist thing is supposed to work...