At first I thought 2 T's, that's not a good idea......then I realized I had 2 T's at the same time, a couple of times in the past. The first one was when I was in the medical hospital....one that didn't have a psych ward but I was in for medical reasons for the anorexia & it was my medical Dr that had me in the hospital. He got the hospital's pdoc & psychologist to come in & see me daily all the time I was in there....because I had also just gone through a trauma & my mom was dying of cancer & I was just falling apart & my own psychologist didn't have privileges at that hospital neither did my pdoc.....but I would also talk with my own psychologist on the phone. I really related better to the psychologist from the hospital than my own which was a bit of a strange feeling especially when I finally got out of the hospital my own psychologist was having major back surgery.

Also after moving across the country to KY after I left my husband, I started seeing a new psychologist here & they had this program where they had a T come out to your house if you were having other issues, so that your psychologist could work on the more serious issues in the office. Again, they were 2 separate areas of issues, but they coordinated what they were talking about & shared information....so it was a good solid treatment plan.

Now, we have our group DBT with a psychologist that's the leader of the group through the same office group that my psychologist practices in.....they all know each other. I don't talk about the group leader with my psychologist, but we do discuss the DBT & how it gets applied to my life stresses I am working on. I don't discuss what my psychologist says in DBT....we keep the group pretty general.

I did make a comment in DBT one time when I realized what validation was all about.....about a previous psychologist I went to who completely invalidated the trauma I went through.....brushing it off to be the same as what she experienced when the home care person for her mother stole a bottle wine that she had been planning on getting after her mother died. Hmmmmm wasn't sure how that was the same as catching a home care person writing checks, catching her applying for a credit care giving out my mother's ID, or cutting the phone chord or experiencing the home care person calling the police who accused me of abusing my mother when she was the one doing all the abuse.....then the final straw, OD'ing my mother on her morphine.....somehow, that just didn't equate to a home care person stealing a bottle of wine in my book......I didn't waste my money on that psychologist after that.....but she was definitely one that I needed to talk through that experience with my current psychologist who I have definitely come to trust & talk with about most everything that comes to my mind.