Hi Janiebug -

LL my therapist is heading into a vacation too.

I see you are here in the USA - Therapy agencys in the USA have to have an on call service or professional to cover the caseload during their vacations. basically how that works is the person calls the normal office hours number and the phones calls are automatically "forwarded" to the professional on call or the service (other therapy agency that is covering the phones).

So you are not completely alone. I know it feels that way but in actuality someone (the on call person ) who most likely has already been "briefed" on the clients your theraipst wants to make sure will be ok if a call comes in from that client is just a phone call away.

Also one of the things I do when in therapy is that I choose a "back up person".

A back up person is someone with in the same therapy agency where I see my therapist, that stays in the loop of what my therapist and I are doing.

That way should I need someone and my therapist is unavailable (vacation, workload, illness you name it) I have someone I can call that already knows the basics about me and my disorder and some problem areas and so on.

Having a back up person makes these every three - six month vacation times that therapists take to keep themselves from burning out easier for me because I know exactly who I will be taking with and if needed seeing should a problem come up while LL is not available. while LL is not available all I have to do is call the main office number and tell who ever picks up the phone - "Hi. I'm so and so LL is unavailable so I need to speak to my back up E like right now." and I will within a few minutes be talking to my backup.

By t he way All USA therapy agencys now have "conference" calling on their phones so I don't have to hang up and wait for the therapist to call me back. I stay on the line and The on call person puts me on hold, dials the therapist pager, home phone whatever and then pushes a button and forwards my phone call on to the phone where my therapist (or back up person) is and the two of us are talking on the phone together.

Hang in there