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Originally Posted by timentimeagain
is anything amiss here?
Client misses an appt. last minute emergency. (never missed an appt before)
C. emails T few minutes before the scheduled session is to begin and apologizes for last minute cancellation.
20 minutes into the appt. No email response (maybe T didnt check email- totally understandable)
but no call to check in what happened...nothing.
C. calls T after 20 minutes into their appt time - no answer.
if a C. is a no show..dont T usually call to check in what happened? (assuming he didnt read the email)
If he did read the email, it would have been polite to answer saying got it. no problem..see u next week? but nothing...
is my T mad at me?
i did explain the emergency in the email. and apologized profusely.
and i will pay for the missed session next week.
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here in NY most treatment providers and mental health agencies do have no show rules, usually the standard to call in with in 24 hours of the appointment to cancel otherwise insurance company will still get billed and they usually do not call the client back when a client has notified them that they cant make it to their appointment. my therapist told me this is because she knows that if she gets my message during or right before my appointment then obviously I wont be able to answer her call because I will be busy doing what ever it was that caused me to cancel my appointment. (work and what ever) and that if I canceled just because I didnt feel like going or because I didnt want to deal with seeing her or deal with what ever work needed doing well thats my prerogative and she wasnt going to interfere with my decision not to go to therapy that day.I make the choice to go to therapy or not and she will always honor my decision.
my suggestion is schedule an appointment with your treatment provider and talk about what the therapists and mental agencies rules are on this and what you would like to happen when you cancel your sessions. it may be that your therapist was just honoring your choice to cancel your session and the ball is in your court as to when you want to have your next therapy session.