My therapist was a staff working for an adult clinic, but her primary, full-time job is at a hospital/university. The hospital/university established a new policy stating that full-time employees are not allowed to have another contract a different employer. Because her primary, full-time job is at the hospital/university, she had to leave the adult clinic where we did therapy. Without going into the complicated details of how the clinic operates, leaving the adult clinic entailed that we had to switch to a different room, but still within the same building. I've seen her for over two years now, and we had always used the same room. The room that we're moving to is bigger and is a kids room. We all have our triggers. I don't have of any memories from the childhood, but do get intrusive thoughts and images and nightmares. The director of the clinic did give me an additional three months in our regular room, but that time is now running out and we have to transition to that dreaded children's room.

She said that most patients are attached to the person who they are working with, not the space or room. But I am who I am, you know. I'm schizoid. So is it so surprising that I'm more attached to the safe space than I am attached to her? No. And because the triggers are too much for me, I told the therapist that I like walking away - quitting. She said that she hopes I would continue our work.

So I gave it some thought and decided to try and continue our therapy work together. But to do so, I need flexibility and accommodation during this transition. I said that I cannot guarantee that I would stay for the entire session; it might be too much for me and I would have to leave. I'm already getting flashes of nightmares and intrusive images and thoughts. Because I'm also tight on cash (struggling fresh college graduate and all that), I asked if she could meet me halfway and not charge the full fee while I'm making this transition. She isn't open to that idea.

Is this a reasonable request? I feel that it is. After all, this cause of this change did not originate from me.