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BonesMS:
I LIKE the way that therapist is intuitive!!!!! I wish there were more like her on my side of the Pond!
lighter:
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I got a good feeling from her. She's very direct, her meeting room is very informal and comfortable. I didn't feel like I was being analysed or assessed (which is good as I don't like that feeling). Today was a preliminary, just to see if we felt we could do some work together. Tupp..... I really hear and appreciate that you're listening to your first instincts in this situation. It might be good to journal hard through this experience, and perhaps note how you're feeling at the top of each entry... unfiltered,and without much thought.
.... I liked the way she worked and felt glad I'd bitten the bullet and gone over. So work will now be underway! I'm hoping you can gain much self awareness and reflection on how trushworthy your instincts are.... at least when you aren't filtering them and changing them to suit pd people around you. Lighter
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Twoapenny:
Thank you, Bones and Lighter :)
Second session yesterday. I like this lady a lot. Very relaxed and informal. Greeted at the door by her lovely dog. She dresses quite casually, I feel like I am popping to a friend's for tea rather than going to counselling. We chit chatted about this and that. Nothing heavy, nothing terribly deep, it felt like two friends having a chat rather than a counselling session. She asked me to keep a note of where and when I feel pain or discomfort and to see if I could find any triggers. I left feeling a little bit like it might not be the right thing for me; I wondered if we were doing enough. It's quite expensive and I don't want to pay to chat to someone. Within ten minutes I found myself thinking about something that happened a few years ago. Almost instantly I developed a very strong headache. Through the evening and over night the pain travelled across my neck and shoulders, down my arm, into my knee and finally into my foot. I got up this morning thinking about something truly awful and had a horrible thought that my mum turned a blind eye to the abuse because she wanted me to have a baby that she could take (I'll explain that more later, at the minute it's so disgusting I can't think about it too much). But I noticed I felt incredibly sick, very panicky, and then I got very, very angry. I've journalled, stomped around the house, had an imaginary go at my mum and I feel clear headed and stronger.
So I'm now wondering/feeling like she picked up on all of this and what seemed like a little chat to me actually got some really strong stuff moving. It's very different to the sort of counselling I had before but I feel more in control of it all. I'm also wondering if those thoughts have always been there but I haven't noticed them before. It feels very powerful.
She's also offered me some free sessions doing something else that she's training in, which is more to do with physical movement freeing up the body. As it's training for her she won't charge for it. I might give that a go as well.
BonesMS:
--- Quote from: Twoapenny on November 12, 2013, 05:00:02 AM ---Thank you, Bones and Lighter :)
Second session yesterday. I like this lady a lot. Very relaxed and informal. Greeted at the door by her lovely dog. She dresses quite casually, I feel like I am popping to a friend's for tea rather than going to counselling. We chit chatted about this and that. Nothing heavy, nothing terribly deep, it felt like two friends having a chat rather than a counselling session. She asked me to keep a note of where and when I feel pain or discomfort and to see if I could find any triggers. I left feeling a little bit like it might not be the right thing for me; I wondered if we were doing enough. It's quite expensive and I don't want to pay to chat to someone. Within ten minutes I found myself thinking about something that happened a few years ago. Almost instantly I developed a very strong headache. Through the evening and over night the pain travelled across my neck and shoulders, down my arm, into my knee and finally into my foot. I got up this morning thinking about something truly awful and had a horrible thought that my mum turned a blind eye to the abuse because she wanted me to have a baby that she could take (I'll explain that more later, at the minute it's so disgusting I can't think about it too much). But I noticed I felt incredibly sick, very panicky, and then I got very, very angry. I've journalled, stomped around the house, had an imaginary go at my mum and I feel clear headed and stronger.
So I'm now wondering/feeling like she picked up on all of this and what seemed like a little chat to me actually got some really strong stuff moving. It's very different to the sort of counselling I had before but I feel more in control of it all. I'm also wondering if those thoughts have always been there but I haven't noticed them before. It feels very powerful.
She's also offered me some free sessions doing something else that she's training in, which is more to do with physical movement freeing up the body. As it's training for her she won't charge for it. I might give that a go as well.
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Wow! That is progress!!!
I wish I could talk to her too!
Hopalong:
How amazing, Tupp.
That is wonderful, when the subtle shifts in thinking that begin in a therapy session begin to manifest something different afterward...
And the no-cost physical modality sounds interesting, too.
I think you have something subtly powerful going on here, and hope it continues to bring you growth. Your own observations are very keen too, and that intelligence will help you make the most of whatever you learn.
Hops
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