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Originally Posted by East17
This is why I'm even more surprised that this particular type of therapy has been offered; I have no outside support system. Psychologist wouldn't be able to accommodate the degree of contact I would need on an ongoing basis - she only works there 2 days a week and that time is taken up with seeing clients; the other 3 days she trains and lectures.
She has already said that she can't be available in a care coordinator role - whilst I appreciate she has been upfront about this, it doesn't help me. I do have a care coordinator but she isn't available on the day I see the therapist, so it's not even as though I can ring her afterwards.
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So have you actually talked to T about your situations. What are her suggestions? Does she have any suggestions at all? If not then could you talk about it with your care coordinator? Does she have any suggestions?
I mean, I would hope that someone in this NHS system would have to think about your situation and offer some solution that make the therapy workable for you. However, I'm afraid that it might not be the case - I have heard some most absurd stories about the mental health care through NHS that it makes me wonder if people organising and working in this system have any clue at all what they are doing or are they merely pretending.
Anyway, I suggest not to suffer in silence but ask from your therapist and from your care coordinator for solutions. Either the T or the care coordinator finds a way to be more available to you, or they find another more available T to you, or in the worst case they have to admit that they offer you something that they really haven't thought through at all. But at least then you know.