Posted by Dinah on April 26, 2004, at 21:13:26
In reply to Advice/help for sessions, posted by B2chica on April 26, 2004, at 14:51:56
Do you have any idea whether or not this is short term or long term therapy? After three sessions very few people do. :) But if it's limited by insurance, you'll have some idea.
If your therapy isn't time limited, then perhaps you can step back a bit. OK, I'm not sure of the correct way to express this, but it's something like concentrate on the process rather than the content? Something like that. In other words, be honest about the struggle you're having communicating rather than try to force yourself to communicate certain information. Talk about how odd it feels to feel compelled to trust someone after three meetings. And then move to the disturbing things you need to communicate more slowly as you build a relationship.
How well that works depends on the therapist of course, as well as the goals, objectives, and time constraints of the therapy. The guy who did biofeedback with me would have stared at me as if I had grown three heads if I started talking to him about how I felt about talking to him. Hey wait! He did stare at me as if I had grown three heads! Then told me that I was hostile. While my real therapist sees it as part of therapy.
So an added caveat, I suppose. You need to know your therapist a bit before you can decide whether to talk about getting to know him.
Therapy is an odd business, isn't it?
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