Yea for some therapists encountering a piece of memory where the memory content is anger and throwing things CAN make them dread seeing the client.
But therapists here in the USA have been trained to work with such clients. Working in the mental health business is not easy. they encounter all kinds of clients from addictions straight on through to violent clients.
for therapists having a client go off during a session is just normal and part of the job.
if they didn't want or expect clients to let loose and release their emotions no matter what that emotion is then they would not be in the profession as a therapist.
Therapist spending more time with the client - interesting response -
For me and I have seen 19 different therapists and the one thing that rings true with each one was that if a client is in crisis that is the time when they need the therapist so the therapist ups the sessions in order to focus on what is going on and get it into control.
Now what kind of upping the sessions varied from moving monthly sessions to bi monthly or weekly or twice a week right on up to hospitalizing a client that needs 24 hour 7 days a week care.
All the therapists I have had contact with say that depending on the problem depends on how often they see a client.
For example LL sees me twice a month unless I am experiencing an increase in flashbacks and self harm urges. Then the sessions go to weekly until things calm down. I control for the most part of the two and a half years that I have been seeing LL. When setting the appointments she usually asks me if I want to come in the next week, two weeks, or the next month. I pretty mush stay at two weeks unless I am having a problem. on that two and a half years hisory LL and I have had to move my sessions to weekly on only two occasions.
I have been in therapy on and off for over 23 years and it has always been that therapists see their clients more during times of crisis then they do when their clients are on track and so on. so the fact that SKR upped my sessions after I got triggered into switching into the memory piece of Margo isn't an out of the ordinary response for a therapist. Its just the way therapy field works here in the USA.
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