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This is How You Fire Your Therapist
You hire his boss.
March 19, 2020
“Good morning Terry,
I imagine having to switch therapists so often has been very frustrating. The easiest thing for you to do would be to call our office at….”
I located this email in my ‘therapist’ folder. Too bad for everyone that deals with me in writing but I keep (nearly) everything. So I used this email from her to let her know that I needed a change. She’s my now ex therapist’s boss. Here’s where I clued her in.
Friday, Sept 19, 2020
“And now here we are 6 months later and I’m going to need to do a switch again. I’ve tried working with Roger (not his real name) but we’ve just never seemed to have synched up. There are subjects I won’t even talk to him about because of the stance he takes. He’s like a dog with a bone. For example my father. We don’t talk about him. Even if Roger asks I tell him everything is status quo whether it is or not. Why? Because Roger’s responses are always the same:
Well, he is from that era.
Well, he is of that age.
Well, it is his house.
Well…
Well…
Well…
