Do you go to therapy? Is your therapist NT?

[windowall]

I'm trying to make the most out of therapy and my therapist is NT. How do you make the most out of therapy?

Have you ever had a positive experience with an NT therapist? I like my therapist, he's just NT so it's hard to communicate sometimes. They don't seem familiar with ASD, we don't really talk about it during our sessions but I have a hard time communicating with them sometimes and want to make the most of our time together and do a good job.

 

[SusanLR]

My first therapist was a NT.
In my mid thirties I sank into depression and panic attacks.
Practically stopped eating. I knew I had to get help, so my first psych
hospitalized me which I sure didn't want.
He was a very cold matter of fact man whom I didn't like so well at first.
Later, I realised he saved my life though and I now think very highly of him.
He is very old now, yet continues to practice in an office.
I don't see him anymore as I moved too far and he only sees geriatric patients now.

The therapist that diagnosed me has two autistic children and admits she is HFA herself.
So she takes a lot of interest in the subject and we get along fine.
I think she learns about as much from me as I do her.

 

[Thinx]

I did masses of therapy and now am a counsellor. People didn't know they were on the autistic spectrum back then when I did much of it, so I m just looking back to think if they may have been. Probably one at least was, but we didn't know then, so it wasn't helpful, rather the reverse.

And I think on some level I chose him because he reminded me of my father.. who now I realise must have had high autistic traits or Aspergers. Again, no one realised then which just made one feel or seem like weird awkward socially blundering misfits... so my therapy was never well targeted but I did so much and am resilient so it worked in the end. Ahem, mostly. It supported me to cope.

I got a lot from training as a counsellor too, and did probably more training than average, for the level of work I do. I still top up my training, and I am a trainer too. I would have loved to be understood better, sooner. In the end I became qualified and experienced enough to understand and diagnose myself. Not officially of course, that's not allowed, and I am not qualified to do so anyway. Being your own expert is probably still a wise position, the knowledge is still limited and variable.

 

[Suzanne]

I see a psychiatrist and yes, he is an nt.

I feel the sessions are no longer constructive for me as they are mostly about the meds that he persuaded me to try! Tried to explain that one of the meds is CAUSING depression and he was trying to insist that it is not possible as they are an anti depressant and I said: but you assured me that they were also used for extreme anxiety, which he nodded agreement and then said that I can go up to 3 times the dose he has prescribed for me, when in fact, I want to stop taking it! See him in August and if I still feel listless, I am going to have to be insist on coming off them. I can be authoritive a little bit with him, which surprises me.

The only inkling of autism is my other med that is to calm down anger from autism, but have no courage to go further.

One thing is that he acknowledges it is very hard for me to see him, but is necessary and that is actually a sigh of relief, for I have spent some years being fobbed off as "normal" and once being accused of faking social phobia! He, on the other hand sees CLEARLY I have it and other issues.

 

[Phanelope]

The therapist I saw to get my assessment was amazing. It was like she could read my mind. Which was awesome because it made it easier to describe what was going on for me. I don’t know if she’ll offer ongoing therapy or if I’ll even want it. I think I’ll be happy just finding out why I’ve been so different all my life.

 

[Phanelope]

I see a psychiatrist and yes, he is an nt.

I feel the sessions are no longer constructive for me as they are mostly about the meds that he persuaded me to try! Tried to explain that one of the meds is CAUSING depression and he was trying to insist that it is not possible as they are an anti depressant and I said: but you assured me that they were also used for extreme anxiety, which he nodded agreement and then said that I can go up to 3 times the dose he has prescribed for me, when in fact, I want to stop taking it! See him in August and if I still feel listless, I am going to have to be insist on coming off them. I can be authoritive a little bit with him, which surprises me.

The only inkling of autism is my other med that is to calm down anger from autism, but have no courage to go further.

One thing is that he acknowledges it is very hard for me to see him, but is necessary and that is actually a sigh of relief, for I have spent some years being fobbed off as "normal" and once being accused of faking social phobia! He, on the other hand sees CLEARLY I have it and other issues.

I started taking my meds (anti-depressants) because I was anxious, not depressed. Since starting them I’ve been feeling depressed more often. Go figure.

 

[ZebraAutismo]

I go to a NT conciler with an autism son. Who seems to get it. I have art therapist with no personal connections to autism who is great as well.

 

[Larsieanne]

My therapist (who unfortunately moved away) was great; he was so open-minded despite probably being NT or something close to it. He told me there was nothing wrong with autism. He learned a lot from me though, and admits it.