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Originally Posted by xmisstrinh
Hi! I think my session went pretty well. It was tears from the moment I started to speak till the end, but I really let off a lot of things that bothered me, and I walked away with some tools and ideas to help improve my situation.
I rescheduled with her right after the first session, and it would have been a two week window before I'd see her again, but in that two weeks, it was so, so, hard for me to confront those problems and implement those tools and ideas. Perhaps 2 weeks was too short a time frame for me to gather up the courage to do anything? I don't know. But I ultimately cancelled my second appointment because I wasn't able to take the first steps to improve my situation after our first meeting. I'm not too sure I did the right thing here... thoughts anyone?
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Hi xmisstrinh,
I'm happy to hear you've been to your first counselling session!
This is going to sound cliche, but it is completely okay that you weren't successful in implementing the set of tools because you tried! In counselling you're not simply taught a set of tools. The strength you require to implement the set of tools is closely considered. In your case, the counselor is going to see that you need help to reinforce it and give it to you. In fact, I suspect you're going to spend some of your next session doing exactly that. So, I encourage you to schedule another session.
For comparison, it's taken me months and many sessions to implement some aspects of the set of tools I've been taught.