This makes total sense.
This is totally unnecessary, though. It’s enough that their schedule doesn’t work for your needs. It really doesn’t matter if it works for anyone else’s needs.
As an example, my fav trauma therapist of all time is gone, on average, 3 or 4 times a year for 2-6 weeks. Sometimes as long as 12 weeks. Why? He does the kind of work I used to, in a different capacity, in disaster response. He does acute trauma counseling to people in natural disasters, wars, genocide, etc. Both the victims and the relief workers. Then he also takes quite a few personal vacations to keep his own head right. Home stateside, he’s booked solid with first responders, prior service military, and the like. He’s a phenom trauma therapist for many reasons, not the least of which that he actually practices what he preaches. He takes care of himself. And we could see that. First hand. We could watch him transitioning back (first couple weeks back “home” he’d be in transition mode). We could watch him gearing up to go, at the same time as he was setting us up for his absence. He was really f*cking amazing. And? Quite frankly, his times away were super useful for me. Because it created space to allow things to settle. Dig in deep, process through, settle. The clients he had? Like me? Were ones who dug his schedule.
That’s part of finding a good trauma therapist... someone whose schedule you get on with.
It doesn’t matter if everyone else loves/hates their schedule, or no one else. The only person it matters about, is you.
