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Originally Posted by seventyeight
that's great that you have a "then you call me" policy with her. i think that's so helpful to keep the lines open like that. and how awesome is it that you're first on the list of clients that she'd tell she's retiring?! that's great.
do you have any sense whether it's going to be soon or not? the only think my therapist has ever said to me on the subject is, "i'm not retiring" (along with "i'm not dying," as i was worried (obviously) about not seeing her anymore  ) |
Yeah the dieing issue is in my head also...I am always thinking after I leave a session that I will never see her again and she just chuckles and says she does not plan to retire anytime soon or die! She has let me take a few photos of her ( I do photography as a hobby) and she has made a few recordings for me of her reading a few kids stories that I have always liked and she will write brief notes if I ask her to if I am struggleing in between sessions. She is an awesome therapist so I cannot even imagine not seing her. I have read threads on this site that talk about therapists only caring about the money and I am sure some do (but not most) With her yeah I pay her but there have been times I have been over $3,000 in debt to her and she never once mentioned the money to me. I was the one always worrying about it. Worrying she was going to kick me out of therapy because I owed so much. When I would tell her my worries she would always smile and say "now what good would that do you?" She has told me she knows I will pay her when I can at some point in time and I did and continue to. I know she cares she would not have stuck by me if she didn't and you know I can really tell when she hugs me at the end of a session. So she just cannot retire!!
