how to become your New Therapist's New Favorite Client by Melissa Shaw

So, I have started therapy again.

"Why" you ask?

Sure.


So, New Therapist and I are are in that beginning get- to- know- you phase of our relationship.

That place where I am quickly recapping all the "boring stuff" and she is telling me that "nothing can shock her."

Since having heard those words, I have seen her pick up her pen, cock her head to the side, and practically call her girlfriends three times.

I have had to ask her to Google 4 different things as a point of reference. (One of which I hope has no pictures.)

But, for the record, in order to make sure you are the client she goes home to tell her friends and family about bring up: your fascination with the occult, affairs with married men, being "kidnapped" by your mother, kinky sex, and your grandmother's nighttime screaming phone calls about death all in one sentence.

Do not flinch when she suggests you should be coming in more than once a week. That is merely her fear of having bit off more than she can chew.

You.

And now she really wants to spend some time.