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Old Dec 30, 2015, 12:41 PM
Anonymous37777
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You aren't under any obligation to return to this therapist. And personally, I'd strongly urge you NOT to return. As you've studied art, you know that "learning" art techniques can be very focused and rigid, but once the artist learns the basics of a technique, art teachers and mentors encourage and support the mentee to be free and true to themselves when expressing their art. I can't believe that she'd tell you that YOUR interpretation was wrong because it wasn't abstract, especially after her obviously not telling you before hand to not use realistic images but instead to be totally abstract. Very invalidating in my opinion.

What bothers me even more is her saying, after your explanation of your daughter's post-vaccination behavior, that there is something that you are doing that is affecting your child! This woman is really very controlling and out of bounds with her labeling, especially as you haven't been seeing her for very long!

I'd just call and cancel . . . .or send an email and cancel. I would add a line at the end of the email that you don't want her to contact you--that's just to save yourself the angst of her emailing back and arguing that you "committed" to so many sessions. It doesn't matter, she can't make you stick to that and you have the right to ditch her. I had a therapist I tried out say that I needed come in for the "final" session because she insists on that. She was a nutbird. I told her "No I don't need the final session. Thanks. Bye."