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Old Jan 13, 2018, 11:58 AM
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Originally Posted by LonesomeTonight View Post
Personally, I'd want to know at the start of session if my T was planning to miss the next one. This happened a couple months in to seeing my current T, where he let me know right at the end of session. Luckily, that hadn't been a particularly intense session, so I was OK with it. But had it been a really intense session, it would have bothered me, because then I wouldn't have seen him for 2 weeks. If I knew at the beginning, it might keep me from delving into a particularly sensitive area, where I could end up feeling either insecure about T (like, is he judging me?) or just really raw emotionally, and then left to hang on my own for 2 weeks.

Actually, I think this may be something to mention to T at next session: "In the future, if you know you're going to be out the next week, could you let me know at the beginning of session?" It might even be good to see if he has any upcoming time in next month when he knows he'll be out, like a conference or planned vacation--not to pry into why he'll be away, just to know. Because then, too, if I know he'll be out one week, maybe I'd see if I could do 2 sessions the week before (he has a pretty flexible schedule), or else see him later rather than earlier in the week before he'd be away.
This happened to me at the end of a session too. He was going to a funeral no less and thought it was okay to tell me at the end (this was a couple of years ago now). Luckily there's been no recurrence.
Thanks for this!
Elio, LonesomeTonight, unaluna