Yesterday's counseling session revealed how much Caroline is feeling resentment towards her present therapist whom she sees every week. Apparently the issue is that the therapist doesn't believe a certain event that Caroline insists really happened two years ago, something rather traumatic. So we are meeting with her therapist, whom we really like, to discuss this whole blow up and figure out where to go from here. Finding the right therapist for a bipolar teen is so essential and I dread having to find a new one if Caroline simply won't feel comfortable with her.
I'm not a therapist but I'd say it doesn't matter if the event happened or not. Caroline thinks it did and she's troubled by it so why not address her feelings of fear/trauma/anger and so on and forget about the whole did-it-happen-or-not debate.
ReplyDeleteThe only caveat would be if there is an unfounded accusation against someone that could result in serious consequences for the accused. Then it's important to try and ferret out fact from fantasy.
Good luck. It sounds like a sticky situation.
Thanks for the input! I appreciate your insight. We shall see after the mtg on Monday what direction we will take with this.
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