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Originally Posted by laxer12
I have a later appointment time so I'm the last person my T sees and a couple of times she has let my appointment run over our scheduled hour. I have no problem with it, I actually love it every time but I'm wondering if that's normal. It wasn't until probably my 6th session that it happened and when I finally got up to go, she asked me if we were at an okay place to stop. Then the following week T let me stay 35 minutes past our scheduled time. Both times I was working through some things and not exactly in a good place mentally so she probably didn't want to just cut me off and send me home since we were finally getting somewhere. I felt bad for keeping her over but it made me feel like she really cared when she would give up that time for me late in her day.
After the second time, I had to email her about something else and apologized for keeping her late. I told her it was okay to kick me out on time, but I was really just trying to be nice. Since then we haven't gone over time at all but I really wish we could, at least every couple of weeks.
Does anyone else's T's let them stay late? I have the luxury of being the last appointment of her day but I'm just curious if that happens to anyone else.
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My individual T is pretty strict about keeping it right at 50 minutes, but one time recently she let me go like 10 minutes over because I was a wreck. In some ways, it's good, because she never keeps me waiting more than like 5 min in the waiting room. But sometimes you just need that extra time.
Marriage counselor, on the other hand, has kept us up to 30 minutes over a few times when we were discussing something particularly major. And in our individual session last week to discuss transference stuff, he kept me like an extra 20 (I kept saying, "I know we have to stop soon, but..." and he'd be like, "We're fine."). I really appreciate that he doesn't necessarily think everything has to fit neatly into a 50-minute slot. He does this with other patients some, too. So we sometimes end up waiting up to 20 minutes for our appt. But I know it's generally because he's giving someone else the time when they needed it, so I'm OK with it.