Deference to Authority and Therapists

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This takes way way longer than the other way.

And that’s the clutch. Therapy here is pay-out-of-pocket, and there seems to be no sliding scales. I’m feeling frustrated because I don’t have the money to spend time like this.

For me, the biggest shift came when I stopped seeing therapy as a place where I had to defer to an ‘expert’ and started seeing it as a collaboration.

This is what I have always felt. Maybe customer service is the wrong way to describe it (although generally I do think that American customer service is a vital part of healthcare — and something I miss, as it’s part of what makes it patient-centered).