Therapy every week?

[Guest spring86]

Do you really have to see your Therapist on a daily basis? it's been 5 months since I seen mine every week and getting to a point where I rather just spend time at home and bed in bed instead of seeing one! I work 40 hours a week and takes me 2 hours to get to work everyday, time is a precious thing!

Already on max dosage of hormones and my breasts are finally slowly developing after 3 months of HRT, I'm a big girl (no puns intended) and been full time for a while. Sometimes I feel seeing a therapist is just counter productive and thoughts about it being a waste of time and even money.

What's the deal??

Spring <3

PS: Finally got rid of all my facial hair with laser!! =D

[Charlize]

Dear Spring, I see my therapist when something comes up. I went every week at first because i had so much to get through but slowed down as things began to work themselves out. I went back a month ago to talk when i was taken off of hormones for health reasons. I will see her now as i need to. We know each other. I am glad she's there and she has helped a great deal but i don't feel i need her much at this point.

I would talk to your therapist about it. I'm sure you've discussed harder issues.

Hugs,

Charlie

[Cyndee]

Daily basis WTH....

I go see my therapist about once every 8 weeks these days (have lot's to talk about), early on it was every 2 weeks. Going on about 2 and half years now and I still look forward to my therapy sessions. I am sure the interval is based on percieved need with your therapist, if nothing new to work on, or needed, perhaps you could pull back on the session interval.

Congrats on getting rid of the facial hair scourge.

C Rae -

[Guest KimberlyF]

I have seen mine every week for almost three years now.

There are very few real have to's in life.

Therapy is one of those things where what you get out is in direct relation to what you put in.

[VickySGV]

My therapy was a bit different since it began with getting me off of an addiction to alcohol, which at first had me in a therapy situation of multiple times a day for a few weeks if you count 12 step meetings as therapy. My recovery path has lead me into Gender Therapy, and a bit further, and is in response to life and not a rule book, but it is my path and not yours.

There is no rule book on how often you need therapy, so the question is what do you want or need out of it? There is the therapist's professional opinion, but it will be in regard to your goals that the two of you have discussed. The SOC7 recommends that an SRS letter be within two years of the surgery, but that is iffy and depends on the surgeon.

Charlie is right on with telling you to bring up the frequency of your sessions with the therapist. It could be they are in the dark about why YOU want so many sessions and are just waiting for you to bring it up.

Kim has hit it perfectly on the deal, that you get out what you put in to a session. Are you putting something in to your sessions, or thinking a magic number of times of sitting around throwing generalities around will get you to your goal.

In a small sense I disagree with Kim though, in looking back, I seem to have gotten so much more out of my sessions that I can ever remember putting in. My therapist did have to get my head screwed on for that issue though, I was not giving myself credit for the work I was doing.

[Guest LizMarie]

I began with weekly sessions a year ago with my therapist. After a few months we moved to every other week, then to monthly. Now we've settled at every 8 weeks or so. I don't have a lot of anxiety at the moment, nor do I have a lot of stress related to my gender identity or my slow transition. Things are progressing, slowly, but progressing. The biggest thing for me right now is patience and getting my therapist's perspective every few months helps me with patience, and with considering how I am handling certain situations.

I look forward to my current sessions but don't feel I need more at this time. In about a year (according to my timetable), I'll probably resume going monthly or even every other week, as that's when I'm aiming to go fulltime (legal done, voice surgery done).