Thanks for the encouragement, Sannah.

I called the family therapist yesterday and he called back today. The other two times I have called a therapist to initiate therapy, we have just made an appointment over the phone and not talked about the issues I want to work on. But I had a rather extended conversation with this guy. He wanted to know what I was looking for, who I wanted to bring to therapy, etc. I told him some stuff. I felt a little upset at one point. This is such a hard area for me, full of years of frustration. We have an appointment for next week. Based on that, I will decide whether I want to continue (and he will decide if he can help) and will then consider whether to bring my daughter along to the next session. I think it might be helpful to me to work on this issue with the therapist alone too, if I can't get daughter to come or if it seems best for her not to come right away.

It will be kind of strange to have another therapist. I will have my individual T and my family T. (Especially strange since my individual T is also a family T.) I will keep my fingers crossed that this will help.