I recently had reason to focus on the therapy I've done over the past six months (I only started last August) and try to determine what I've accomplished so far. It took a while, but I finally did come up with a number of things as to which my perception had changed and a number of things as to which my actions had changed, along with my evaluation of the progress I've made on the goals set with T at the beginning and any new goals that had come into being since then. I journal for T, so I wrote up these things in journal form and sent them as email to T. She was very appreciative and her own evaluations of my perceptions of what we'd done together were very interesting indeed. It led immediately to a closer "meeting of the minds" as to what we're doing together and how we're doing it. Ultimately, I think we'll waste less time because of these kinds of reports, at least I hope we will.

I would like this thread to be dedicated to periodic self-reports (annual, bi-annual, etc.) by PC members in therapy evaluating their own progress (or lack thereof) over a prior period like a year or half-a-year. With the ultimate intention being to, first, revise the report in light of other PC people's comments and advice here, and, second, submit the revised report being given or sent to each person's T. I volunteer to go first and in that way give a better idea of what I'm really talking about here.

Two kinds of posts are specifically invited into this thread: first, actual draft progress reports, and, second, helpful comments, suggestions and thoughts about the posted draft reports. Remember: HELPFUL comments and thoughts. The intention being to AID the writer of the report to make the report BETTER and more informative for the writer's T. Take care!