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Old Dec 19, 2007, 12:31 PM
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I don't think Echoes is wishing to change therapists; just understand her therapy and this therapist better. If she does not get to feeling understood, not feeling like she's listened to well or can continue to work with this therapist then I would look for another therapist I felt I could work with better, that exhibited better listening skills (based on what is reflected back, comments made or interpretations).

Before I "knew" my T I knew she was good for me because I felt she had "exquisite" timing :-) I told her that many years later (like 20+ years later) and we talked about it. When I first worked with her, it felt like she didn't say very much but that everytime she did say something, it was directly on "target" and germane/helpful to whatever I was thinking/feeling or we were talking about.

We discussed it the 20 years later, because it had "gone away" some and I realized that my therapy and life experience had greatly broadened and I didn't need such "direction" and that my focus and own abilities had widened such that I saw and understood more whereas at first, I'd had tunnel vision and had only seen what I "needed" to see and there had been "less" of it. In first grade the learning game is new but by 12th grade one has a lot more experience and learning new things the way they teach in school is old hat. I worked directly and indirectly with my T from around 1978 to 2005 so toward the end my therapy sophistication had gotten to the point where I could terminate and almost start my own practice, LOL.
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