One victory at a time

[greenstorm]

I met with the counselor from my work's employee line (virtually) yesterday. To recap, the employee line ghosted me a couple times and sent me to an inappropriate counselor once, I escalated through three ranks of people, I got an appointment scheduled for a month after the escalation and three months after my most recent attempt to get help.

And this counselor is fantastic. She's so great. I am so happy with the experience in several ways, including her ability to have a conversation where tangents were both welcomed and well-controlled (so additional context and information could be added without derailing the whole thing, this is such a skill), empathy on weird things, explicit offers on how she can support me with questions each time about whether I would like that thing or not, and-- well. Anyhow, she was great. She's booking four weeks out so I'm hoping to get good use out of her on my decision-making, which I've come to question lately, just as I'm using the PDA counselor to get PDA tools and will no doubt eventually come back to my first and main counselor (not gonna see more than two at once, oof) to honour and explore the way my heart drives my life.

So this work counselor has sparked my energy to start the first step of diagnosis: the screen. Gonna do it.

Eep.

Comments

[yarrowkat]

oh yay! this is great!