My T surprised me in a good way in session today by giving me huge lead time on his next absence, telling me why he was missing, and giving me options to choose for handling it. Even though we kind of hit a big deadlock on this issue, and no one was giving an inch for a month, it was really nice and kind of interesting he did a take-two on the whole thing, in a way that showed he understood my view and incorporated it.

We talked for a few minutes about the three clocks hidden to the point of camouflage around the office, and how psychotherapy can seem like a secret society or having a deliberate mystery to it. My T didn't really give the nod that is was like that, or that it wasn't, but he gave the example it could be like Skull & Bones.