I'm starting with a new therapist tomorrow, a psychoanalyst I believe. I already have an art therapist. The art therapist I arranged privately while waiting for the NHS to provide me with psychotherapy as it was taking too long. But now this has come through I'm reluctant to drop it as it's not easy even getting psychotherapy on the NHS and an opportunity to work with a psychoanalyst is even rarer.

Is it a good idea to see 2 therapists at the same time? My last counsellor wouldn't agree to see me at all if I was seeing another therapist but I think this is different as art therapy is very embodiment focussed and based on activity whereas the psychotherapy will be all talk and much more psychodynamic. I think they could complement each other - one enabling me to contact embodied and non declarative memories and the other enabling me to start processing and regulating my thoughts and feelings on a more declarative level.

Problem is though; if I tell them I am seeing another therapist I'm worried one of them will say I should only see one at a time so I'm not sure what to say, if anything.