Direction? whats that?! LOL

Seriously sometimes my therapist LL doesn't get a chance to sit down before I open my back pack and say "I brought this in today" and she sits down and says great and we are off and talknig about whatever itis I brought in, or dropped of to her.

Other sessions she and I sit down and she says "so hi how are you?" and Im off and babbling about everything that went on in the past two weeks and what I have done on this project or that one.

and still other sessions I sit down and have no idea what to say so she will ask some questions and eventually we end up on a topic that lasts the whole session.

Some days we cover many topics.

Some days we plan the next sessions ahead of time like for instance when we used and did a sand tray activity, when we do relaxation visualizations during sessions and like our next session we plan on leaving the office.

Therapists aren't supposed to tell the clients what they need to talk about and work on. A client enters therapy already knowing they have a problem. Because of state laws and mental health guidelines therapists cant tell a client what they need to talk about. They can ask if the client wants to talk about a topic but they cants say ok today we are going to talk about.... and make that client talk about that topic. Its up to the client to work on that problem in therapy or not. the cleitn is the one paying in some way for the sessions and the client is the one with the problem that they have chosen to enter therapy for so it is the clients decission of what to do in therapy.

Kind of like going to a restraunt you are the consumer. the waitress doesnt come over and say you are going to have the fish and tea. they say what would you like to have today? and you the consumer has to decide what you want to eat and pay for.

therapy is the same way you are buying a service and must decide what and how you want to get for your money. In this case you can get 50 minutes of silence or 50 minutes of talking about the weather or 50 minutes talking about your problems and then deciding what you want to do about those problems.

Yes I have many goals and plans that I have chosen for myself -

memory recall work
depression management work
relaxation visualizations (otherwise known as hypnotic techniques, hypnosis)
grounding techniques
research on my problems
art therapy
awareness therapy
journaling,

just to name a few of what I am presently working on.