If this was me and I had to make the choice between a therapist that I have connected with or trying something new with a psychiatrist I choose the therapist any day.

So what you depend on your therapist to be there for you. Thats part of the therapists juob to be there when you need them.

Not angry at you. I had a DHS caseworker that tried to claim I was Too dependant on SKR. One month she sent SKR to the ethics board for seeing me too much and then the next moth she sent her in for not seeing me enough.

the ethics board sided with SKR and I. The bottom line is that each therapist gears the clients sessions based on what that client needs. Yes the client must do the work but how often and when they see their clients is up to them and the client. If the client needs to see their therapist every day and has the money (cash, credit insurance whatever) the client and therapist can do so.

At one point SKR and I were seeing each other weekly and calls every night either to her or to her voicemail. why because that is what we needed to do to make it through the night.

Other times we didn't have any face to face sessions just my dropping off my journals and artwork and projects so that she could monitor when I needed to see her face to face.

Other times I saw her bimonthly and monthly.

My schedule with LL varies, sometimes weekly sometimes bi monthly.

It don't matter to me who says I have to do things this way or that with my therapist. only LL and I have a right to decide what and how we do during my sessions. I also take into consideration the supervisors suggestions because E is the back up for me if LL is unavailable.

No one elses opinions matter - not her co -workers. My family physician (who prescribes my medications when needed.) even stays out of what and how LL and I do my sessions.

that DHS caseworker also tried to have me court mandated to see a psychiatrist besides my therapist.

To me its kind of overkill and too many hands stirring the stew to have both a psychiatrist and a therapist. Family physicains are capable of prescribing all the same medications as a psychiatrist.

And the court agreed. there was no reason for me to see a psychiatrist for medication needs and therapy needs when my theraipst and I have connected and were getting things done and family physicians have the same requirements for dispensing a full range of medications the psychiatrists do.

So given a choice trusted and connected therapist or unconnected and untrusted psychiatrist - therapist hands down.

if you want to do a different form of therapy your therapist can do that with you just like the psychiatrist can.

The only difference that I have found so far between a licensed therapist and a licensed psychiatrist is that the psychiatrist went to (physical) medical school besides studying psychology.