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Therapist returns to therapy
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…