Thread: Devastated!!!
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Old Feb 20, 2015, 08:30 AM
PaulaS PaulaS is offline
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I just have to write and to express all my sadness at the moment. I donīt know what to do, Iīm devastated about things that happened. I just want to escape from all this but thereīs no way out, I donīt drink and such.

To those who havenīt read my former posts, I was terminated some months ago by a T who couldnīt handle complaints and she terminated me against my will, I got abandoned. Since then Iīve tried to find a new T, not just to talk about the former T but mostly to try to solve several other problems in my life.

Iīve seen several T:s and some weeks ago I found one that seemed nice and understanding. Here itīs standard to have three evaluation sessions and then you decide if you want to proceed into therapy.

I saw this potential T three times and I told her from the beginning that I was able to meet with her on either Wednesdays or Thirsdays. She didnīt work on Fridays. The question about available appointment times was brought up all three times I saw her and she knew I was interested, I told her so in the meeting and also when I wrote her follow-ups on e-mail. (She told me it was ok to contact her via e-mail).

The first and second time I saw her, she told me there were available appointment times on Wednesdays and Thirsdays and she also told me there were NO special time frame within which I had to get back to her. In the third meeting she suddenly told me there were no available appointments on Thirsdays any longer.

She also knew from the beginning that I choosed among a couple of T:s but I was very clear every time that I thought of the sessions with her in a positive way.

When I realised there were just available appointments on Wednesdays, and just only one slot I e-mailed her after the session and asked her for how long she could hold on to that session. She told me she could hold it for a week.

The thing here is that she let me see her for three evaluation sessions and as I talked positively about her and the sessions I just counted on that she also knew she would be available if I choose to begin therapy. Iīve had the evaluation sessions during three weeks, one session a week and as she every time told me about the same available slots, I thought I could count on that.

I found her behaviour quite strange because who lets a potential client into evaluation sessions without even knowing for sure thereīll be available slots when the evaluation is over? It was just plain "luck" that the only time on Wednesdays hadnīt been scheduled, it could just as well have been and then I hadnīt even had the opportunity to choose.

The other thing was, if she noticed that she got many enquiries and she noticed there were almost no slots left for me - why didnīt she tell me? Why did she let me continue in evaluation?

I e-mailed this potential T about this, she wanted me to e-mail her, not call her and I first got the answer that she believed I should see another T. She said believed and I both e-mailed her saying that I was still interested in seeing her even if I asked her about this thing about the available sessions.

I then also called her and left her a message in her voicemail and just said I wanted to talk to her about the whole thing and I left her my phone number.

Now, just half an hour ago or so, she sends me another e-mail and says her offer about therapy is no longer available. Of course she blamed me, she talked about negative transference!

Wouldnīt every potential client who sees a potential T expect the T to have available slots if you decide to proceed into therapy? How can this be negative transference?

As we several times talked about available slots - how can this be a reason for her to deny me to continue? I donīt understand any of this. Perhaps someone here at PC understands...

Last edited by PaulaS; Feb 20, 2015 at 08:32 AM. Reason: spelling
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