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Originally Posted by pbutton
Good input, thank you both.
Right now I leave work 2 1/2 hours early because my T's last appt is at 3:30 and his office is half an hour away from my workplace.
Perhaps I need to find a T closer to my work or ideally someone who has an open slot after-hours. A shorter commute would give me more flexibility with the times I could go. Although I had one early-morning appointment and I totally shut down and went numb for the remainder of the day. So I'm a bit scared to try mornings again. I presume it was some sort of coping mechanism to try and "de-therapy" myself so that I could function. Didn't work.
The thing I find really interesting is I feel like there is absolutely NO WAY I could ask my current T to schedule 2 sessions for me at once. It's one of the most pronounced examples I've run into where I feel like I can not ask for anything that is not pre-offered to me. I am absolutely TERRIFIED of asking for something and being told that someone can't help me. Fascinating and disturbing at the same time.
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I have to have the latest session too, pbutton, which most of the time is 4:00. I have had to work extra hours other days to make up for the time missed (I usually work 10-6 or 11-7...gotta love a flex schedule
). I also need it because I find it hard to work after session too. Your therapist sounds awfully busy...I couldn't go 5 weeks! My T has been great about scheduling me weekly usually 3 weeks at a time. Since I'm her last client, she's been scheduling me herself and it's been fun to watch her get pissed at her iPad trying to schedule me (technology and T do not mix). I empathize and I hope you can work something out!