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Originally Posted by SarahSweden
Thanks. I donīt find it too much to ask for that a therapist is able to go to the door and open it when she knows her client will probably be there like five or ten minutes before the meeting starts. Itīs comparable to, at least for me, that if I know someone will visit me and we have decided a time when this person will come to my home and visit me, I donīt start or answer a call just a few minutes before his/her arrival. Of course I hadnīt let the person stand in the stairwell for several minutes before I go to the door and open it.
This counselor might have gotten an important call she couldnīt ignore but then she can still go quickly to the door and let me in and that hadnīt interfered with the call.
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I agree with the part of someone visiting your home, but therapists do have calls to make to insurers and so on, so them using the 10 min of off-time in between sessions makes perfect sense to me. It's like when I want to reach my doctor, I sometimes have to try calling him many times over the course of a day to reach him, so even if the counsellor set asside 60min to do administrative stuff every day, she might need to make calls in between sessions.
Rgearding opening the door, of course it should be opened, but if they're on the phone, them taking a short time before opening it is fair. Imagine she has a distressed client on the other line and tells them that she has to open the door and leaves them crying their heart out.
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