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Therapist returns to therapy — the first month of sessions

Claire
8 min readDec 27, 2024

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Not so much a summary as a blog for each week.

Photo by enfantnocta: https://www.pexels.com/photo/man-in-jacket-smoking-a-cigarette-3785186/

I thought this would be an interesting record for me as I move through this latest chapter of therapy, plus an insightful look for curious outsiders.

This first month I will summarise and discuss general themes. Future sessions will be stand-alone articles discussing things in further, wider detail.

The format of the rest of this article will have a heading for which number session it is, sub-headings for the theme of the area of discussion, then non-bullet-pointed bullet-points (bear with me!) of prose. This is because my process is quite scattered and I will go from one subject to the next; I don’t want to clog up this article (or any future ones) with superfluous narrative which could detract from my point or just bore you!

The assessment process is detailed here.

First ‘proper’ session

A little disjointed, very ‘storytelling’ (by me, I’m a ‘head’ person and love words) though my therapist offered reflections and insights I hadn’t got to myself. Already! There is new stuff happening!

Two parts (amongst many) in me

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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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