I think incremental wouldbe good too--to wean you off of his previous program. Can you suggest to him that it be incremental? Also, if he wants you to use your own abilities to help yourself to deal with this, I hope he is giving you specific strategies and even coaching you in practicing these strategies in session. Otherwise, how will you know how to do it? It's like he's saying, "sink or swim, baby." When my T taught me techniques for rescuing the traumatized little girl inside of me, we practiced these together in session. I could never have come up with these on my own or known how to do them. I am grrrrrr at your T. Sorry.

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