I feel like all I talk about now is my job. Today I only had one couple and then five individual sessions. Since two of the couples recently dropped out I asked the admin staff for five more. There were six on the waitlist and the supervisor was going to take one of them. He said he didn’t know what he was going to tell them that would be any different than what I told them or what any of the other counselors there have told them. I feel like I need to remind him I’m not burnt out on couples yet.

They were talking about hiring on another counselor to work two days a week strictly to help with the marriage waitlist. Something about this sort of bothered me. I am just going to keep doing my work and not get caught up in the office dramas. I have started coming out of my room if I’m on a break and just going into the office to say hello and chat for a while. I really can’t figure this out, if it’s supposed to be more personalized to each couple or if different ones have their own unique needs.

The supervisor there says that most couples come to therapy about two years too late. This week I’ve been using language like zooming in and zooming out. Sometime we’re zooming in on something that in the middle of it seems like big and difficult thing, which it is. But then, and they are the ones who brought it up, the zooming out happens and they go back to what they said at the beginning of the session. that overall today they’re at a 7 or an 8. Both of these things can be true.