I]I am too traumatised and fragmented at the moment to even get out of bed, due to the abortive and mishandled ending of my previous therapy. After I have invested six years in learning to trust, to share and attach to ex T, his services have been suddenly withdrawn in contravention of a detailed and sensitive therapy termination plan that we had worked out between us. This has left my sense of trust broken and my sense of security in fragments. How am I supposed to trust another therapist? My first priority is to try to repair the damage with exT or else at least to resolve my reasonable complaints and concerns about the way that my therapy with him has been ended. In my view professional standards have been breached in terms of keeping a vulnerable client safe. This needs to be resolved before I can even consider whether I need to start more therapy and given my past experiences of therapy, I cannot be expected to start again now even if this is what I ultimately need."QUOTE]

I think your email is fine--it certainly details what you're feeling and how this ugly action on the part of your former T has hurt you. But I'm not sure why you sent it to a T you've never seen before. Do I have that right--that you've never actually met with this T? Did this T contact you and suggest that you make an appointment or was this individual a name given to you by your former T's clinic as a possible person to contact to work through the terrible termination?

I ask because if this is simply a name given to you by your former T's clinic and they told you this might as an option open to you, please don't feel bad if the T doesn't contact you back or if he/she does contact you and says something bland and noncommittal like: "Please feel free to contact me when or if you desire my services." I say that because if he/she has never met with you before, they probably won't be terribly supportive or compassionate in regard to all the pain you're in emotionally . . . . Although he/she might surprise everyone and come through like gangbusters. Good luck and I hope you find some healing because your former T sure did let you down!