Session three began on a bumpy surface. Abbey was reluctant to meet once again, I entered her room and she seemed unsettled or disoriented. We started the session and she expressed her lack of desire to have a session at that moment. Apart of me felt as if I was being brash on having the session in that specific moment, maybe I should have been more open to her opinions on meeting times. However, in the past, she has been resistant as I expressed in my first reflection to meet. It does worry me that her personal situation may be overpowering her desire to do these sessions. Moving forward, she spoke a little about how she has been very low and her body was causing her some pain and attempting to arrange thoughts in her mind was just too difficult
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I figured it was probably to see my reaction, maybe she looked to see if I approved or accepted the things she discussed with me. I never changed my response, I accepted the behavior and allowed her to continue. These behavior and responses are key to therapy and I realize it was benefit to notice them, once again I wonder when I would express to her that she did these things at certain moments. Or would it be best to keep them in my notes so I could associate a behavior with a comment. This may be far fetch, nonetheless, I believe conducting either art therapy or some sort of expressive therapy will help Abbey express her feelings on another level. During this session I could not help but think she wanted to share more in depth but felt uncomfortable doing so because the information she was disclosing was very personal and she resorted back to laughter to cover those feelings. The reason I think art therapy or some form of expressive therapy would be beneficial is because or 1) her artistic abilities and the comfort she has associated to creating art, 2) it places her thoughts onto a blank canvas so it is an actual concrete visual and lastly I think it will alleviate the stress of figuring out what to say during session and instead, allow herself to express freely. I attempted to incorporate an assessment of free association and it did not resonate properly, she seemed very uncomfortable and rejected the
I figured it was probably to see my reaction, maybe she looked to see if I approved or accepted the things she discussed with me. I never changed my response, I accepted the behavior and allowed her to continue. These behavior and responses are key to therapy and I realize it was benefit to notice them, once again I wonder when I would express to her that she did these things at certain moments. Or would it be best to keep them in my notes so I could associate a behavior with a comment. This may be far fetch, nonetheless, I believe conducting either art therapy or some sort of expressive therapy will help Abbey express her feelings on another level. During this session I could not help but think she wanted to share more in depth but felt uncomfortable doing so because the information she was disclosing was very personal and she resorted back to laughter to cover those feelings. The reason I think art therapy or some form of expressive therapy would be beneficial is because or 1) her artistic abilities and the comfort she has associated to creating art, 2) it places her thoughts onto a blank canvas so it is an actual concrete visual and lastly I think it will alleviate the stress of figuring out what to say during session and instead, allow herself to express freely. I attempted to incorporate an assessment of free association and it did not resonate properly, she seemed very uncomfortable and rejected the