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Old Sep 03, 2017, 09:31 AM
feileacan feileacan is offline
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Location: Europa
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Congratulations on the job!

I was relocating for a year due to work and the plan was to continue with skype sessions once or twice a week. In reality I started to see a new therapist in that location and continued the sessions with my T after I came back. I could not have imagined going completely without therapy all this time (either via skype or in person). I believe though that the decision to see someone in person was a good one. I was going really far from home tough and thus driving home to see the T was not an option.

I decided not to tell my boss that I'm seeing a T. I got one very early morning session time from the start and I was able to move the other session to earlier in the morning after some time. There were few occasions when my boss wanted to see me during the session time with short notice. These situations caused me quite bit of anxiety because I felt that I need to have my session in order to function more or less properly alone so far from home. Each of these times I told my boss that I would prefer to see him later and he never questioned anything.

Right now my workplace is 2.5 hours drive away from home and I go to my workplace for 1-2 days per week. In the beginning, when we discussed with my boss on which days I would be present, I had to explain him why these can't be just any random days but can be only particular days. I told him that I'm in psychoanalysis, which is my personal project that has lasted for a while and that I still expect to last for some time and I would like to arrange my schedule so that I could continue it. None of this is wrong because I am in psychoanalysis. However, I deliberately did not use the term psychotherapy because I figured that the term 'psychoanalysis' could have a slightly different meaning as 'psychotherapy' for someone not too informed. Anyway, we have never talked about it again and I've had no problems. Few times I've made an exception and gone to my workplace on other times when really needed. At least once I've had to skip my session. If it happens once or twice per year then I don't see it as a problem.