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Originally Posted by feralkittymom
Growli, I've been supportive of LCM and her interactions with you in residential. And I still believe she can be of great help to you. But this ambiguous relationship--what her role is and isn't, what exactly her credentials are, is she in practice or not, is she licensed, what's her relationship to TT--creates a level of chaos that produces needless anxiety for you. It could be that the structure of the residential program was a good fit for her strengths, but without that structure, she is floundering. I'm not sure that she is clear what her role as a life coach is: she seems to be bouncing around between therapist and big sister. I think it would be best for you to talk this out with TT. Did they ever meet and discuss relative roles? I remember you saying that was the plan, but has it happened yet?
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I don't really know how to describe my relationship with her bad to be honest, some variant on "mom" is the only thing that fits and I think because I do literally see her as a mom and not a life coach or a therapist, it's much easier for me to not demand something more professional and defined because I don't want a professional and defined relationship. I want a mom and I know that everyone who has read any of my posts is well aware of that. I also usually have a bit hard time deciding what is and isn't okay with her. Obviously, she led me on, made me an anxious wreck, stood me up, and then laughed at me struggling like someone might chuckle at a puppy too small to jump up on the coach. That's not okay. As I said, I sent her the majority of what I wrote on this thread because I feel like I did a pretty representative description of my feelings surrounding all of that. I imagine we'll discuss that tomorrow and get back on track with something more workable. I don't expect her to do that again. She's never done anything that extreme before. She said she wants to schedule this week so that will be better.
The problem is that I haven't bonded with my other therapists and I'm not getting any emotional work done with them. I do progress with LCM but I can't see her in a therapy setting. So she just does what she does.
And she and TT still need to talk