Okay Sunrise, I'm going to try and be assertive tomorrow. I'm going to use your questions, with my own spin of course and see where we land.

I'm terrified though. Here is where I'd like to go tomorrow:

(1) I plan to say how all of this insurance stuff and talk of reducing sessions and setting graduation dates is affecting my progress. This is what I am focusing on now when I have other issues to talk about.

(2) I need to say that I'm hurt because he seemed to agree with the reduction of sessions. He also gave them a graduation date and didn't think to ask what if I am not ready by then. why not? Am I their client or his?

(3) I need to bring up that I feel weird now going weekly and that any day he or the insurance will make the decision for me. And that will have a bad affect on me. Just when I thought that I was getting closer to him and trusting more, it was ripped out from under me.

(4) I was planning to come in tomorrow and reduce sessions on my own because of all of this. Not because I'm done but because of this situation.

I'm scared to say any of this because I don't know what his response will be. I want to say this in a way that doesn't insult him as a therapist but he needs to know it. How can we move forward unless I do this?

My inspiration to do this will be because of all of you and the courageous sessions you have had. What is the worst thing that could happen? He could say fine I can't help you anymore apparently. He's never said this to me but he might tomorrow.

I need to prepare for this response...eeek!