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I usually pay at the end of everysession, so my T will say that time's about up and that's my cue to pick up my purse and write out a check.

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That's interesting. I always pay at the beginning of every session. T says that's so when we finish up, the focus is on me and our work, not on the mechanics of payment. But with my old T, I paid at the end. I am kind of glad to pay at the beginning because sometimes the sessions can be so draining or engaging, I might forget if it was at the end. One time I did forget to pay at the beginning and then our session was over and I was saying bye and walking right out the door and he caught me, like hey, you need to pay. Whoops.

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I always pay when I first walk into the room, so it is taken care of... you never know what can happen at the end of a session. My T usually keeps me for an hour. He will usually warn me when we only have a few minutes left because I have this great "habit" of bringing up something really important or earth-shattering 3 minutes before the session ends. After the "5 minute or so warning" we usually both know when the ending comes, and nothing is really said. I just get up, he gets up, and sometime he'll say "same time next week?" only that's actually a joke because he knows I'll always be there, same day, same time. Wow, I'm rambling like hell.

Oh and I will edit to add that I have a really hard time transitioning back to "real life," too. It usually takes me about 7 days or so, in which time my next therapy session is here, lol.