Thanks, Jello, krazibean, and sister.

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you sound so strong and confident.

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">Wow, I do? Cool!

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I'm jealous that you have spent time with T out of the usual context but I wonder if it will make it harder or easier (or no effect) when you two sit across from each other in the therapy room again. I bet it will make your therapy better!

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">sister, I think you are right. I think the only possibility is that it will enrich my therapy. I think seeing T outside of his office also helps demystify him a bit. Like he's not a magic being who exists only in his office for my one hour a week with him. He is even more real to me now.

Another thing that is interesting is he talks the same in this other context as he does in his office with me. He is a therapist using therapist-speak and therapist-presence even outside of the therapy context. That's just who he is! It's not a mask he puts on when he is doing his therapist job. It is him. I really like this.