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Therapist returns to therapy

Session 6

Claire
6 min readJan 7, 2025
A small green sprouting plant grows through cracks in a stone wall

I thought this would be an interesting record for me as I move through this latest chapter of therapy — my fourth chapter since training to be a psychotherapist over ten years ago — plus an insightful look for curious outsiders

My reflections from therapy.

Chapters

Chapter 1 — a year of not very effective person-centred therapy where I learned a lot about what doesn’t work for me in therapy.

Chapter 2 — two and a half-ish years of integrative therapy that was more effective and taught me some things I like and some things I don’t like from/in my therapy.

Chapter 3 — four weeks of EFT-assisted therapy that ended when it became clear my process was too slow for my therapist who admitted they have a “get on with it” process. Most unhelpful and quite damaging!

Christmas break

I’d had concerns about breaking over Christmas so much so that before we started working together I had asked if it was possible to delay until after Christmas. This was partly financially motivated but it did also have a basis in the way I build/maintain relationships.

My therapist did not want to do that and was confident we can work with whatever arises from having this break. It turned out…

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Claire
Claire

Written by Claire

Observations of people and life through an autistic lens. I'm a recovering independent that believes we're better together AND we must embrace solitude.

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