Posted by meme3842 on August 12, 2008, at 16:16:41
In reply to Re: also... (brief) » Phillipa, posted by wishingstar on August 12, 2008, at 14:42:06
Hi, Wishingstar
I don't post that much, so this might seem out of nowhere. But I can understand about wanting to see your other therapist. Given, that your new one hasn't really indicated why she is against you going to see your old therapist, I think you should keep the appointment and go. I understand that you don't want to step on her feet, but it's really not her place to tell you who you can or can't talk to. I did have a therapist who told me that I couldn't talk or see my old therapist, who I am still very much attached to. So that relationship didn't work at all, because she had made up some rules that suited her without any logic behind them. My current therapist knows that I talk and email to my old therapist, and she's okay with it. (I think she knows that if she tells me that I can't, I'll quit therapy with her.) And I tell her what I talk about my old therapist and use it to help me overall. In fact, the current therapist is on vacation, and I told her that I will just call the old one if I need anything. And she didn't seem bothered by it all. So that's just my rambling, but I feel that there is a reason why you want to see your old therapist, and it will keep bugging you until you do. So I say go ahead and do it, and how it helps or not. Meme
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