Thanks to everyone for your understanding. It made me feel better.
It's interesting to hear how different Ts handle scheduling.
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Originally Posted by treehouse
3 - 4 weeks sounds like a LONG time. Will your schedule be regular enough anytime soon to book a standing time??
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No, not really. Maybe in the summer I will have a schedule that is more flexible.
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Originally Posted by rainbow8
When you saw him regularly, weekly or every 2 weeks, he set aside the time for you.
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Actually, most of the time he has not set aside time for me. It's true, when I first went to see my T, I did have a standing weekly appointment, for about the first 6 months. I liked that, but I also had a very flexible job then that allowed me to leave whenever I wanted for an appointment as long as I made up the hours later. Now my schedule is pretty crazy since I'm back in school full time and working at the hospital. The program directors often will schedule a surprise class we have to attend in what I thought was our scant free time, so it really is difficult to schedule with certainty. After I stopped having the standing appointment, I still saw T weekly for a long time and then every other week just by making the appointment at my previous one. It was not a problem. This shows how much busier my T's practice is now. I wonder if it is of any concern to him to not be able to schedule people sooner than 3-4 weeks? Is it OK to say, I don't like it?
I am wanting to take a new direction in therapy, which I think would go better if I could go to therapy more frequently--maybe just for a month or two. But I hesitate to do this because of the scheduling issue. I don't want to start on this topic and then not be able to go back for a month. So T's busy schedule is making me balk at working on this topic in therapy.
It shouldn't be like that.
I think what I'll do is at my next session, try to schedule more than one appointment and see if he'll go for it. Even being able to schedule 2 appointments would be helpful. But my own schedule is part of the problem, I know. I also have this paranoia--how is it that I say I can go to therapy any day or time during my week off and he comes up with only one appointment, just 50 minutes long (take it or leave it)? It makes me wonder if he is trying to get me to have shorter appointments? Maybe he doesn't like the 90 minutes anymore. I have no reason to believe this--just paranoia and feeling unwanted. Stupid stuff. My session last week was not that great, and I'm sure this is affecting my thinking.