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Originally Posted by SarahSweden
I see a counselor who's not a therapist and we're not doing therapy but I see her for "supportive chats".
What I've now noticed several times is that she has begun to take days off for hobbies and because of different private reasons.
Of course it's ok to take some time off when a relative just died or when you're sick but my counselor has just recently stayed at home to train and to be with her dog. Today she told me I can't see her as usual next week because it's her adult daughter's birthday on that day we usually meet.
I find it strange that her supervisor allows her to be away as much as she is and due to such reasons I now mentioned. I feel my counselor tries to find reasons to be away instead of focusing on her patients during the week.
She's always free on Saturdays and Sundays and still she took a day off just because it's her daughters birthday, to me that's not ok as it affects me and other patients.
Both her attitude and the facilities attitude towards patients is a bit nonchalant as I see it. They seem to do a bit as they want and I assume one reason is that my counselor isn't seeing any patients for therapy. But still, it's way too easy for them to prioritise themselves and what they feel like doing.
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many therapists that I have seen take time off about every three months or so. this is to prevent treatment provider "burn out" like my last therapist said to me "imagine listening to 8 to 10 peoples problems for 8-15 hours a day, sometimes 7 days a week and sometimes when on call 24/7 for a week or two, helping them to solve those problems, how does one person not get tired and bogged down by other peoples baggage? I bet if you think about it you will find that you have that one friend who is constantly needs you to listen and help them. imagine how those times when you have looked at the phone and thought oh man not again and not answer that call imagine it being your job so you are unable to go with out answering that call for help. and you have to do this with so many people a day so many hours a week so many days a week? my answer was yea I can now see why you take so many days off and why your job requires you to use your paid vacation time every few months or so.
I know that with me if I was constantly finding fault with a counselor / therapist/ or psychiatrist thats a red flag for me that this is not a good fit and its time to say good bye to them and find someone else who better fits me.