Carla Axelson
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You’re whaaaaaat?”
You're going where? When my therapist is on vacation, I see it as a huge interruption and inconvenience in my process. A different or more constructive attitude would be to think of this as an opportunity.
Based on personal experiences, WHILE MY THERAPIST IS ON VACATION, presents an easy to understand format. You will find tools to help you get through the most difficult time in therapy - a therapist’s absence.
Learning our therapist is taking a vacation can be a catalyst to backsliding behavior. Everything can take on a negative orientation. During this time, we can make choices to look inside ourselves and practice the skills we have learned in therapy or linger anxiously until the therapist returns.
WHILE MY THERAPIST IS ON VACATION addresses some time honored therapeutic statements, perspective and worksheets to help you through until the therapist returns.
I hope you find this book helpful.
For more information on "While My Therapist is on Vacation" or about Carla Axelson, please go to www.whilemytherapistisonvacation.com
Carla Axelson lives in west central Minnesota and has two grown sons. This is her first book with another one in the works. She writes from personal experience with mental illness. Carla has learned many coping skills through therapy and shares personal examples in "While My Therapist is on Vacation". She has discovered, through talking with several other people who deal with mental health issues, that when a therapist leaves on vacation, it can be a very difficult time. Carla also knows that it can be a time of personal growth.
It seems like when Dr. Dee, my therapist, Laura (my community support person), or Karen (my nurse) go on vacation, that is when everything falls apart. It is usually terrible timing and how dare they not check my schedule with theirs for my crisis dates? My depression worsens, I forget to take my meds and my finances go by the wayside. It’s not that I don’t know what to do, but when they are gone, it seems that my brain goes on a sabbatical. There have been times I didn’t even know that they were leaving and things started to unravel. Perhaps I sensed they were leaving. I don’t know. There’s probably some type of “when your therapist goes on vacation attachment disorder” in their diagnostic manual. Try having all three of them go on vacation at the same time. Been there done that. I really need to call on my list of what works. I will go into my list later in this book. I need to bring up my treatment team because they all participate in my wellness and help me to help myself. Many of the statements in this book are things I have learned from them. It almost feels like there has to be a therapist, Doctor, or Psychiatrist somewhere 24/7 on call or the world may collapse. Ok, that’s not likely to happen. But I realize that there are people that have a difficult time when their therapist leaves.
