[kokosugar]

Hello, I just registered on this forum about 5 min ago and hopefully I am putting it in the right topic area!

I've been seeing her for about 4 weeks and gotta say out of all the therapists I went through i trusted her the first session. This thursday i just wanted to rush into 'psychotherapy' i guess and just told her my one of the most crippling traumatic events, but we kinda ran out of time.

Now she pretty much knows the whole gist of me and i dont know what to expect next week. Like what else could we talk about other than the current issues im facing now? She will teach how to change my behaviral patterns and stuff but I dont know. As of now I guess i'm just confused which is making me unfcomfortable. Any advice or anything at all would help! Basically I am dying to know what happens next..

[Lost_in_the_woods]

Glad you found your way to this wonderful community
I think it shows amazing courage and drive towards self improvement to open up so quickly and deeply to ur new T. I understand ur frustration..even w/ a T I've been seeing for a while I still have a lot of times where I chit chat or waste time on minor annoyances b4 I can work into talking about a more important or bigger issue then I almost always am running outta time...issue guess 4me unless I am in tears in the waiting room complete meltdown crisis..I just find it awkward and unnatural to jump right into the stuff that seriously plagues my mind...as for what happens next idk That depends on both you and your T. If you walk into your next session and say I know that we ran outta time last sess, but I am hoping we can continue where we left off and maybe you can give me some feedback about it and I'm hoping we can discuss some treatment planning and goals around that topic. Being proactive is and straightforward in your needs is always helpful to the therapeutic process..try not to get frustrated or offended if ur T asks some redundant questions or asks you to reiterate ur story. It's not that he/she wasn't listening but most Ts see a lot of clients over the course of a week and it's hard to everything. Then on the Ts side of things how they think best moving forward has a lot to do with both their assessment of your needs and what kind of methods/style they tend to subscribe to. Cuz there are many schools of thought re: therapy practices and most Ts have personal preferences based on their training, research, and experiences in treating others with similar issues. There is no "one size fits all" so even tho they will try to work within their comfortzone of methodology a good T will try to employ this through their understanding of your values, experiences, and thought processes. They may say they would like to spend some more time getting to know you b4 making a treatment plan or they may explain the types of therapies they think may help and some basics of what those methods are about. So it's hard to know what to expect exactly. But keeping on point and open and honest w/ both ur T and urself is the most important thing Hope this helps! Be Well and Keep Writing!

[skeksi]

I think what happens next is up to you. If you want to talk about the traumatic incident again at your next session, you can. You can tell her you blurted it out so she would know but you want to work on something else. You can tell her you're not sure how you feel about having shared, and talk about what sharing it felt/feels like.

Think about what you want or need, and you can decide what happens. Good job sharing! Getting it out the first time can be so difficult.

[rothfan6]

There's really no set steps that happen next. I went into therapy thinking I would do steps a, b, and c and be done but it's more like the whole jumbled alphabet and coming back to letters we've already been to. Trauma therapy is more about healing within the relationship than something like cbt that's concrete like building coping skills. Processing a trauma is more than just telling someone, unfortunately. I admire you for being able to tell your whole story, that's really courageous.