Can’t Do Therapy Right Now? Try These 5 Therapeutic Activities
Tips to get started doing therapeutically helpful things while on the waitlist.
“I almost canceled this appointment today.”
“I think I’ll be too depressed next week.
“I forgot.”
“My car broke down.”
I have been a therapist for more than 24 years and have had plenty of experience with a client’s reluctance to see me. It plays out over and over again in false starts like these.
Sometimes it starts with not showing up for your first appointment — which you were so grateful to get last week. Or it’s canceled appointments, no-shows, or confessions. It can be hard to get started with a therapist, particularly if you are already depressed or anxious. How could you get started doing things that are therapeutically helpful without seeing a therapist?
Once you get started working together things fall into a more comfortable rhythm and become easier. Most people have good results from the relationship. But first, you have to get started.
Perhaps you can’t get into therapy because you:
- have no insurance, can’t spare the money
- don’t have the time or patience
