Positive Experiences With Therapy

[Mallaky]

Thank you for all the awsome posts. Really, really encouraging and hopefull stuff.

 

[Eagle3]

I am currently seeing the best therapist I have ever worked with. I've seen many therapists and a couple of pill-pushers before winding up with my current team, and I couldn't be happier! He's very understanding (we've been through similar stuff), VERY reassuring, and he knows when to push me and when to back off. He is actually my best friend's Aikido instructor. I started going to her class, and he had to help me with some severe chi-blockages that were damn-near killing me. Then, he found out about my trauma and wanted me to be a guinea pig for his intern. After the intern, I stayed with him because we had such a good connection and he had so many tools that I desperately needed. I've been seeing him about 8 months now, making good progress and currently hoping this will never end (but I know nothing lasts forever...). Hope you find a therapist as good as mine! Good luck.

 

[oasis2003]

Hi
I have a therapist who is very calm and matter of fact. She seems to know a lot about therapy a nd has had a lot of experience. She is also kind and just is trying to help me. She seems very intuitive about when I am dissociating and grounds me often. At the end of a session she can tell when I am a bit over whelmed. We have tried lots of different strategies and used humour to lighten things up a bit. I hope that you find some one that is helpful and that you can trust enough to open up to.

 

[Chincho]

I've been seeing my current therapist for five years. She is really experienced and works together with my psychiatrist who is also great. It was difficult at first because I had huge trust issues, but she was very patient and now I don't know what I would do without her.

 

[barefoot]

I've been seeing mine for a year and she's the only therapist I've ever worked with. I find the process of therapy itself really difficult but I feel incredibly lucky that I have her - she's so compassionate, really intelligent, deeply intuitive, totally open, very funny and she holds the space gently but firmly. As well as doing the difficult work, we also laugh a lot and have a lot of banter, which is really important for me. She also challenges me but in a way that isn't at all critical or judgemental. And she responds well to feedback I give her, making adjustments if need be to make things more how I need them to be.

I absolutely always feel that whatever she does/says is in service to me - it never feels like 'her stuff' or her ego gets mixed up in sessions and she doesn't take things personally.

I adore her and feel totally blessed to have her in my life and she's supported me through some really difficult times.

I promise there are good ones out there! :-)

 

[deleted]

It took me a few therapists to find the one I have now but I'm soooo glad I kept looking! He's helped me so much in the time we've been together and I wouldn't trade him or the experience I've had with him for anything. It's really hard finding a good therapist sometimes-there are a lot of wackos out there but keep going! I promise it will be worth it!!

 

[Aggie]

I"ve had 4 over the past 10 years. Overall they were all what I needed at that time. Positive. Scheduling and insurance were the main reasons for not continuing with the first 3.

 

[Changing4Best]

I have not read the replies to your post, but I would like to say in general that whereas I used to go to Therapy twice a week when I first was diagnosed over ten years ago, I am now only going once a month. A lot has happened in all that time, but basically all I do in therapy now is to work out anything that has come up since my last session with my therapist. Usually we can take care of that within the one hour. I also have my therapist's home phone, email and office phone number. I only use the home phone in case of emergency and I only had to do that once. It was nice to know that I am trusted with such a thing however!