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Originally Posted by *Beth*
Well, I've been seeing her for almost 5 years, but she's been absent so much for health problems (I know they're genuine, but  ) and sometimes family issues (seems she has a lot of those) so if I add it all up, I'd say we've actually been in therapy for 3 1/2 years. The inconsistency is terrible, so stressful for me that in the first month of our therapy I was in a manic episode, she got sick, I had a breakdown, and that was when I was taken by the cops (not at all kindly) to IP. That time she was out for a full 3 months.
Add her absences to her very bad memory (she takes loads of notes; I don't know why). She has confused me with other clients on occasion, and thought someone in my life had passed who had not, at all, which was quite awkward.
I began talking with her about my trauma issues quite early on...maybe 6 months in. She was very supportive. I just  |
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*Beth* I'm now doing trauma work with my T. I've been with her for a year and we've only just started slowly getting into it.
She's spent a lot of time going through coping strategies with me to deal with the dissociation, plus breathing and grounding exercises. She said it's very important that she helps me keep as safe as possible (we work remotely) and that we always work at my pace.
I know you like your T, but I'd be concerned that she wasn't consistent or reliable enough to safely do trauma work with. What if you were in the midst of difficult stuff with her and then she went absent again for weeks or months? Doing that could leave you in a terrible position. I'd just started trauma work with my previous T when she had to stop working due to terminal illness. Having to abruptly stop the work with her, and then her subsequently dying, left me in a really bad place and it took me a long time to begin to trust someone else enough to restart trauma work. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
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