Hi there, I'm a therapist in training seeing up to 3 clients each week at a placement. For as long as I can remember I have arrived late for everything. To be clear here - I am not interested in anybody elses diagnoses about what it means for an individual or therapist to turn up late to therapy. What I am interested in is some opinions on "lateness/tardiness" as a boundary issue. Books I have read talk about the issue of the client being late (and the therapist making much of the 'acting out' that this represents) and about the therapist inadvertantly missing sessions, but nothing about lateness. Can the boundary issue, rather than the (pathological) tardiness, be overcome within the therapy itself (which is otherwise experienced as highly effective therapy/healing). It may be important to note that in dialogue with clients, none has expressed the lateness as an issue for them per se, so long as they get their full 50 minutes. It is, for the most part, other therapists, who seem willing to condemn tardiness on the part of the trainee therapist.
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