I feel my T, marriage counselor, and p-doc are all genuinely concerned and reacting to what I'm saying. With my previous p-doc, it felt like she was just going through the standard questions so that she could get to the prescription-writing part--so I changed p-docs, once another joined the practice. Current p-doc seems genuinely concerned about my well-being and approaches her job as more than just prescribing drugs (she has 25-minute med checks, for example, which previous p-doc had 15-min ones).

I actually talked about this to my T recently. She strikes me as a very emotionally stable, pulled together person (unlike me!), so I had assumed she was just able to switch off thoughts about her patients at the end of the day. But she told me no, that she keeps thinking about them, and that some of her colleagues have told her she cared *too* much. After that conversation, I saw her in a different light. She's also teared up a few times recently when I've told her things. But times I needed her to just listen and not react, she's generally done that too. She keeps track of the time, as we always end on time (with a few exceptions), but I also keep close watch on the clock, so it doesn't bother me that much.

My marriage counselor doesn't seem nearly as pulled together, and his emotions are easier to read. It's clear (most of the time) that he's reacting to what H and I are saying, that it's not rehearsed. We haven't specifically had the discussion with him that I did with T, but I can tell he's the type that takes work home with him mentally/emotionally. A family member that lives with him (wasn't more specific than that) was having a bunch of health issues a bit ago, and during a few of those sessions he seemed rather distracted (and he had to cancel a couple). But he apologized to us for letting his home life interfere with his job and seemed genuinely sorry (he does a lot of apologizing--just like me). He seems to keep track of the time, but not in an obvious way, and if it's a particularly difficult session, he's let us go over time by as much as 20 minutes.