Hi,

Yea - my therapist seems to have made this a regular habit recently. As she is also the supervisor of all the therapists in that facility there is really not much I can do about it in regards to reporting her - so, I just decide to make the most of it. I talk to her while she decides to remain awake, but then once she falls asleep I simply start scheduling things out in my head or thinking problems through logically that ordinarily I could not for reasons of being aggravated by someone or something while trying to think. She gave me her number long ago though too, so I call her at tines - but recently she has stopped returning those too. So yea, I think, its a matter of what you want and why you think the therapist did it and if you think it will happen again. I don't think there is a true etiquette for that - other than they aren't supposed to do it in the first place.

You can wake them immediately. Wait for them to wake. Wait for your appointment time to be over and wake them. Wait for your appointment time to be over and just leave (without waking them). Just leave right then. Use the time to do something else. Report them. Get extremely angry and yell when they wake (no violence though). Talk rationally about how you felt about it when they wake. Just ignore the situation once they wake. Quit going to them. Keep going to them and see how things go.

All of those things are your choices, and none are "wrong" or "irrational". The best answer is: you do what's best for you, that's all any of us can do. I can tell you, it's one of the most aggravating things a therapist can do.