Bit of background I guess, being seen by the crisis team at the moment as recently come out of hospital. As is the nature of the crisis team in the UK, you don't get much consistency in who you see and as such it's a new face each visit.
Last Sunday a lady came round and had quite a long chat with me... digging into more of my background than I'd expect as usually it's just to check how I'm transitioning into being back at home and current state of mind.
Noted that I had childhood trauma issues and asked questions about my T (thought this a little strange), as in what approach(es in my T's case) she uses and had she established a safe place for me to use while dealing with trauma work.
Turned out she is a T herself on the side (instantly wondered if she was fishing for work as I pay privately rather than through the nhs for therapy - consistency being the key issue) and was critical that my T had me establish a memory to retreat to (of before the crap hit the fan... ironically, it was a poor memory to use as it brought back other memories I had supressed). She went on that T's have different ways of doing things but that she would never use an actual memory of the client for this purpose... though some do.
This work had been done a week or so before I crashed and ended up being admitted to hospital but I've contributed it to a number of factors.
Now, not for one second am I going to drop my T... she has been amazing and I acknowledge that crap happens. For obvious reasons, my T is holding off doing anymore of the foundational work until I am well out of crisis point and am more grounded... but wondering if it's something to mention at a later time?
Has anyone else experienced this as a problem?
Grumbled a little at the nit picking of the lady above... I don't really need negative inclinations towards those I have faith and trust in right now (my stability is a little fractured so, yeah), but that's a whole different kettle of fish.
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