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Default Feb 11, 2011 at 12:02 AM
 
It's hard to say based on what you wrote. Could you give a specific example? I think some therapists are more directive than others. Do you think you would like a therapist who is more directive? Could you ask your T if she could provide more direction, guidance? If you have asked her, what does she say?

My first therapist was not very helpful with a specific big problem I wanted to solve. She did not do or say anything that really helped me move closer to a solution. She did help me become less depressed, but that still left me with the problem. I realized after a while that she was never going to be able to help me. She did not have the skill set (she had no idea how to help). So I quit. Later I went to see a different T and he had a broader skill set and could help. (That is my current T.) I was actually talking to my T today and told him when I first came to see him that I didn't really think he would be able to help me because of my first T. I assumed all Ts would be like her.

I just mention that because maybe there is a different T that can help you if this one can not. I assumed all Ts would have the same abilities, but I was so wrong.

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