so every time my t says we are going to "go talk and see who is feeling that way" i freak out. i never want to do it. so i decided today to "go talk and see who was feeling that way" and have a conference. so we all sat around the conference table, set up ground rules that everybody had to identify themselves before speaking and asked who freaks out when t says this, why, and what can we do about it. turns out three dont like t's approach, the rest understand this is how she is trying to help us. one particularly vocal one feels she has done a great job keeping us safe and resents t for all her efforts in directing us to a safe space when we are triggered in therapy. she doesnt like how t goes on and on and on "babying us" and apologizing to us for things that have happened. the plan is to tell t what came out in our conference but in doing so, we are caught in a catch 22 because then she will have this need to apologize to the parts for upsetting them, the very thing that upsets them. we are struggling on how to tell t without her thinking we are mad at her or that she has done something to upset us. they just dont like it, they dont need an apology, they just want it to stop. any ideas?
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