phone session

i'm currently waiting on my T to call me for our phone session because she is away this week. i wonder if she will charge me for it.... i'm trying to write a list of everything i want to talk about, because unlike regular sessions, when there is an awkward silence she can be like "OK well i have to go now" yanno? i don't want that to happen too soon and me have more to say. do any of you have experiences with phone sessions?

um, i'm getting really nervous. she was supposed to call me at 7. She did call earlier, around 3:00, but i missed it, and she left a message and said she had a moment free because her son and husband were napping <33333. but she said its no big deal she will just call back this evening. i thought that meant 7, like we originally planned. but its almost 7:30. still no call. should i call her? since she already called me and left a message, so is it like my turn? but she said SHE would call later, and since shes not home she needs to like plan around her family when she gets a free minute. but i hate just sitting here waiting.... what if she forgot

I'd call her by 8. Something may have come up though. At home, things are so unpredictable because you're not in an office where you can turn off distractions.

well she called. she said she was out with her family and she couldn't get away, however she called me from the car and i heard her husband in the background, haha. and she kept losing me. we only talked for like 10 mintues total, but we got disconnected 3 times. it was nice to hear her voice. she may call me on thanksgiving because i'll be alone, and she said i could call if i need her. or email. so thats helpful, but i miss her. 10 minutes broken up over the phone wasn't enough to cover a missed session, especially because we weren't really "alone". i have to wait a whole week to see her. i'm def. gonna be calling her. ohhh, T <3

That's too bad it wasn't a very good phone conversation but I never felt very good during phone calls with my T, they just kind of got me to the next "real" session.

I had a lot better luck with writing during periods I didn't see her. I bought college "exam" books that have like 7 pages, you know the "blue" books?

http://www.shoplet.com/office/db/ROA77513.html

and would write one for each week (approximately 1 page a day :-) she was away and mail them to her at the end of each week. I felt like I was "doing" something and it kept me and her informed where I was at :-)

i had only one really good phone session. that was when i was cycling so rapidly that i felt i was going crazy, he really calmed me down. i don't know how long he talked to me, but it felt like forever.

the last phone conversation i had was very embarressing for me. i was asking about get sleeping pills for my plane trip. the embaressing thing was the time he called me. i was in change room, with my bra on and no shirt. ahh!

krazibean, I'm glad you two were finally able to connect and that your T's call made you feel better. Maybe if you do a phone session again (in contrast to simple phone call), you can schedule it during her regular office hours so that more time is allotted for it, and she (and you, if possible), could use land lines so you wouldn't be disconnected. Plus, she wouldn't be distracted by family and driving so she could give you her full attention, just like in a face to face session. It must be hard working out the frame of what is a new type of session for you.