It depends on how you and your spouse get along I think, how close you are to each other.

My husband has come with me to all of my therapy sessions for almost 5 years. He is there to help me. He is not there to get his own counseling. Or even for couples counseling, although I suppose some of that just naturaly happens.

But sometimes its good to get his point of view on how I have been reacting to certain events. Sometimes I am my own worst enemy and its good for him to tell my T what he sees from day to day. I have social phobia and depression and sometimes even with my T I can have a bad day and clam up. Not be able to answer her questions or do the talkiing that I should. H is a great encourager.

My old therapist thought it was a great idea that H was there and my new T likes the idea also. But my pdoc won't allow him in. I think she is making a mistake. There is always something that I forget to tell her that I'm sure H would remember.

In other words it just depends on you and your relationship with your spouse.