[AnxiousGirl]

As most of you know I've been seeing a therapist for anxiety for a year. Now we moved on to exposure therapy which is very hard to do. I have homework to do until my next appointment next week and I can only do one of it. She told me
To email her if I had questions or concerns so I sort of want to let her know that I can't do one part of the exposure so she knows beforehand. Is that an okay thing to do? I also hate to email her incase I bother her. Thanks

[Ellahmae]

Completely okay to email her if she says to, I think it would be beneficial for you and it also helps her to know 'where you are'.

[SkyscraperMeow]

Then don't. Exposure therapy isn't 100% proven anyway, and frankly, I think if you work on underlying anxieties then exposure becomes completely unnecessary. I was severely agoraphobic for a while, but it had nothing to do with being outdoors really. Once I was no longer in emotional turmoil for other, completely unrelated reasons, the agoraphobia melted away.

Sometimes I think exposure therapy and the like just makes people hold on to their surface fears and treat them as if they're the real things they're afraid of, when they're just the manifestations of much simpler, more primal issues that need to be dealt with.

My 0.02 anyway.

Not sure emailing her is necessary (I'd probably just discuss it in the next session as it isn't like you are being graded), but if she said to let her know then just follow through with that communication.

[AnxiousGirl]

Yeah I dont think im going to email her. I'll just wait until session. Thanks