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Old May 05, 2008, 06:09 PM
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Do you know what kind of therapy is the psychologist is doing? Is it what you want?

Prior to the T I have now, I saw a very nice psychologist who I liked well enough, and who did guided imagery and then admitted off-handedly that she does hypnotherapy; but I wanted to talk in my therapy, be heard, understood, really listened to. That wasn't how she worked, but I didn't realize it until I saw her a couple of months. She wanted me to come with a "topic" and we'd work on that. After several months of not talking much, just doing the relaxation exercises, I realized we weren't going to work well together.

I researched therapies and found the T I have now, who is a psychoanalytic/psychodynamic therapist and the session talking about whatever comes to mind at that moment. The goal is to simply feel better (from anxiety and depression). It's the pace I chose and she is just the greatest listener and supporter.

Perhaps you can talk more to your psychologist about how you're feeling about your sessions.