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Originally Posted by licketysplit
First, therapist #1 won't know just because of the deductible, which can be reached with lots of other non-mental health related visits and tests.
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That's true, but (skipping details) I had a firm sense of the elephant in the room last session. I didn't really like that but the upside is it puts me on notice to make a choice and handle myself upstandingly. I'm thinking now that the best way is to be up front with #1 about having one session with #3. Although that will be hard for me, the therapist kind of has to accept that.
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Originally Posted by licketysplit
Fourth, if seeing #3 creates confusion, it might help you further clarify what you are looking for in therapy and a therapist.
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That's certainly true.
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If you don't see #3, it sounds like you will always be wondering. Would that wondering eat away at you?
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Yes. But I wonder if this is in indication of my lack of maturity, or wholeness, or something like that. As somebody else pointed out, I'm fortunate to have gotten a good start with someone I like. And yet I turn it into a perspective of my having been dumb, i.e. not having started therapy earlier so I could have known I didn't, or did, need to change plans based on having seen the others out-of-network.