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Originally Posted by monalisasmile
As for reducing stress reducing therapy, sounds like it could work and I worry about what supports you will have as you transition into these new journeys. They sound very exciting and will free up some extra time for you. Extra time to me means extra time to think which means lots of emotional stress and turmoil. Not saying this will be your experience but something is coming to me like the calm before the storm, maybe it’s my anxiety and not yours.
It sounds as though your therapy has been a very safe place for you to bring your struggles about your work and the work you do with trauma victims. This is extremely hard and weary Work. I wonder do your have food support other than therapy around that, a supervisor, group supervision or anything thing that hold and supports you.
I also think you have given this a lot of thought and are fully capable of looking after yourself. I wonder could you try the monthly session for a number of months to see how it goes and does your t offer support in between sessions.
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This trauma work (not as a T, by the way) is not new-- I've been doing it for 25 years. So it's not a new journey, just a journey without the stress of the other part time job that i'm giving up. That job is with an organization fraught with interpersonal conflict, soulless administration, and a lot of unhappy people on power trips.
So with my work with trauma victims, there is no supervision or group supervision to be had around it.
I don't know that i'm going to move to monthly sessions, and I might go back to weekly sessions. And my T is really good at out of session contact, I can call or text or email.
I'm not sure about what you are picking up, the calm before the storm, except I think that any work with trauma victims has the potential to create such an impression. I do take really good care of myself, have good social support and lots of my friends can be trusted with the basics of the work I do, minus the gory parts. Thanks for your thoughts.