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Originally Posted by SarahSweden
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When I wrote about how a therapist should be able to adapt to the client my viewpoint was that many therapies given within (our) public health care are shaped by a lack of resoruces. That means therapists do sometimes know what their patients need but they canīt offer that due to financial constraints.
The latest therapist I saw wrote extensively in my records about what I need so she did understand my needs but at the same time she wrote they couldnīt offer me that as the facilityīs mission and responsibility donīt cover what I need from therapy.
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I need a personcentered therapist who knows about transference work and who can combine those two modalities. I need someone who also knows about sexology and who can talk about such issues on a psychological level. I think this is very hard to find as therapy here is often focused on one single issue, for example depression, and by that youīre most likely to end up with a therapist that knows about one single condition but canīt address other issues or addresses them in a parsimonious way.
My counselor talks about different issues in a very shallow way and often refers to something she heard or read, but without asking questions or follow through on anything. But in her case I know thatīs because her training wasnīt as a therapist but as a psychiatric aide or similar and she doesnīt know how to talk to me on a deeper level.
But itīs still a problem as they wonīt help me with a referall and Iīm stuck in all this due to my need for welfare.
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Whatever the specific circumstances, it still seems to me that they not only
will not help but they also
can not. Can't because of lack of resources, can't because your current counselor doesn't have the training, can't because. . .who knows? And if they can't help, can't provide what you need -- then what?
It's a real dilemma, that's for sure, I truly understand that. And an unacceptable one, I get that. But if it is what it is for right now -- how does not accepting that help anything?