Therapy Woes - Being Passed Off & Starting Over, Again.

[bhm]

Ok so I have some baggage, abandonded at birth, csa that started before I had memories and continued til was old enough to hit the street, then dealing with the violence and everything eles that goes along with that piece, when I got up into my late twenties I tried to access therapy but found clinicians at that time were almost affraid to work with me and visibley seemed to suffer vicarious trauma from working with me, I gave up even thinking about trying. Now after being exposed to one to many incidents professionally, resulting in a total mental collapse and being forced on leave and have to move to a different community for saftey reasons I luckily ended up in a Community that has excellent services available, I've been working with a great recovery team, but to get there had to run the gambit of being passed around by a plethora of clinicians, over the course of a year, everytime having to relive everything over and over again until they all finally agreed on a diagnosis, that nearly killed me, now for the last 6-7 months I've been working with the only clinician I've ever felt comfortable with but over that time, our regular sceduled appointments have gotten shorter and fewer, and we seem to have come to total pause after starting emdr, due to a change in thier role at the outfit they're a part of and now are talking about passing me off again for emdr to a different clinician and and just doing check ins with me, I'm finding this incredibly disheartening and and frightening having to switch clinicians and basically start from scratch again, altough I'm familiar with the new person I can't help but feel really bad about it, any ideas people?

 

[Friday]

we seem to have come to total pause after starting emdr, due to a change in thier role at the outfit they're a part of and now are talking about passing me off again for emdr to a different clinician and and just doing check ins with me, I'm finding this incredibly disheartening and and frightening having to switch clinicians and basically start from scratch again, altough I'm familiar with the new person I can't help but feel really bad about it, any ideas people?

Have your current clinician draw up a Cliff Notes version (with you) to transfer you with? That way the new person will be 1 step ahead, and you’ll not have to start over completely from the beginning.

 

[bhm]

Have your current clinician draw up a Cliff Notes version (with you) to transfer you with? That way the new person will be 1 step ahead, and you’ll not have to start over completely from the beginning.

They're familiar with my background, the transition will be pretty smooth, I'm just being a bitch lol, I just gotta get over it, I was really comfortable where I was.

 

[grit]

You are not being a bitch actually...I hope you meant that figuratively!

I think you are right to feel apprehensive for another yet unnecessary transfer. But also I hope you recognise, you are aware of, acknowledging its hardship, and open and ready to take it in both its difficulty and progress.

I wish you the best. It is not easy to awalys switch and all these therapists are not really most aware in my book.

I truly hope the transition is smooth.

 

[bhm]

You are not being a bitch actually...I hope you meant that figuratively!

I think you are right to feel apprehensive for another yet unnecessary transfer. But also I hope you recognise, you are aware of, acknowledging its hardship, and open and ready to take it in both its difficulty and progress.

I wish you the best. It is not easy to awalys switch and all these therapists are not really most aware in my book.

I truly hope the transition is smooth.

Cheers @grit , I'm actually kinda lucky, I had to move away after my breakdown and ended up in apparently the golden kingdom for services and treatment, the clinicans and team here are outstanding, I feel blessed for that