Horrific Experience - Looking for Validation

[whiteraven]

Try clicking on the words find a therapist - they'll take you to a site that we've partnered with called GoodTherapy, they have an excellent index of therapists - it's more well-vetted and thorough than what is available through psychology today's listings.

But try not to get discouraged. I tried this site and there were no results within 100 miles of me.

If you have a university around, you might be able to find someone there. My therapist - who was recently trained in CPT - is also a professor at a local university. My therapist in college was also a professor there.

I asked on a few occassions on this site (and other places online) what people's experience with CPT was, as I did the 12 sessions. I don't think anyone on this site has done it, except me. In many ways it was helpful. BUT BUT BUT-- in many ways treating my PTSD in this manner made me so much WORSE because the t would not "discuss" the other stuff that surrounded it . Because there was so much more... I can't write anymore right now,

I am in the middle of CPT, sort of. My therapist started it with me, then took off for a month. Not sure what I'm going to do with that, but that's a whole 'nother story.

He is *very* flexible with this therapy and willing to work around some of my issues with it. That said, it has been very destabilizing for me.

But I had a LOT of emotions I had to deal with and my "truamas" also involve a lot of complexities and confusing things. This therapy just about did me in!

Wow, I totally get this. And if the therapist is not as available as he should be, it makes it worse.

 

[blackemerald1]

I've had a similar experience with my therapist and was a little disconcerted to hear her say a few weeks ago that she thought we had covered almost all of it. The problem is - we haven't. :wtf: