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Originally Posted by stopdog
What do therapists say when a client says they think the therapist should be helping someone else? Has anyone told their therapist this?
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The time that another girl showed up at my appt time (I had the 3:30, she was the 2:30 but had missed it) I told T that I felt like I should have given her my time slot (She was quite upset in the lobby.) He vigorously shook his head no while I was saying I thought that she probably needed the appt more than I did. The whole thing was rather awkward since we were talking about a very specific client of his that I had seen. She quit therapy in the waiting room when he came to get me.
The really odd thing was that in the appointment confusion they hadn't paged him that I was there. So he was just randomly walking out into the lobby and WHAMMO! he got hit with two agitated clients.

I was upset because at first I was horribly embarrassed that I'd shown up at the wrong time. After that I felt bad that I couldn't bring myself to let her have the appointment.