I remember when I first met my T he had kinda the laundry short list of how he offers services and what is acceptable and what isn't.. Alll of it seemed perfectly fine. He was okay with one call between sessions if I really needed to. He would not do email at all ( He's 68 and thinks that too many things can be assumed incorrectly in a email, he said he would rather set himself on fire before he learns to text LOL )
That was 5 years ago .. He often gives me grief at times for not calling him between sessions when he thinks I certainly needed to. I don't like to "bother" him.. Yeah that's all on me , I just say .. Okay I'm a mess right now but I see _________ in 7 days or 2 days or whatever. over the years it has often times taught me how to self soothe and learn to get through some rough stuff on my own based off what he has helped me learn, so work in progress.
I have his personal cell and home phone number. I think over the last 5 years I have called his cell during office hours a handful of times and I have never called his home and cant for the life of me think of any reason I would ever need to call him at home.
I think T's have a right to have specific boundaries. Yes they are helping people on very deep levels and sometimes people take help from someone like a T to something that it isn't.
It often takes a few tries to find a t that is a good fit for a person, Not everyone is going to " click"
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