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Originally Posted by DarkAsNight
2 part question:
1. If one misses an appointment with a therapist cuz they made a mistake about the time/location/or something came up last minute [obviously not talking chronic case of missing appointments which would be very different], why should one be responsible for an honest mistake or circumstance and pay for it? Which leads to...
2. ...if one does have to pay cuz it's the therapist's professional income, time is money, what about the reverse? Why can't a client charge the therapist and get a credit for the next time? Isn't the client's time just as valuable? Isn't this inauthnetic and hypocritical to have different standards? Further, there is already an imbalance in power, why do therapists add to this imbalance like this?
Am I the only one who thinks this?
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Most T's have a policy that if you miss an appointment you will be charged. It usually doesn't matter the reason unless you get hit by a bus or something tragic like that. Also, T's see any appointment miss as a possible acting out behavior. I would not look at this like a power imbalance but as a boundary.
Second, I saw your other post about being dumped. So normally I would tell you to talk to your T about how you feel when she is late and doesn't give you the time back. Most T's will talk about this with you and come to some sort of resolution. I had an issue with an old T about this and we talked about it and if she was late she added it to the end of my session.