Question-able: Therapeutic timing, place-meant...the whole truth of it...

"So, where did we leave off...what did you leave out...did you think over what I asked you to...left you with...especially designed, timed, to deliberately leave you hanging...searching...?" Questions and commentary, qualifiers, regarding why and how I questioned you...sometimes without the adequate time or 'space' to answer...takes a lot of training and experience to do this correctly, so as to maximize the time in between...what's known to the public, outside the privacy, confidentiality of our discussion as a process... that ends up...keeping you guessing...thinking...pondering...😉😕...a "plot device" that, when it's done well, written into the plot (read here as the therapeutic session, whether still done in person or, more often now, remotely, which itself is a subject of Q & A...see below...keep reading...), keeps you coming back for more of the same (?) OR, on the other hand, if attempted too soon, by an unseasoned practitioner or even by someone well intended but might get ahead of my-self (as in my case, with my Taurus like traits...an intense internal drive...a type of individual who would do best to learn to be flexible, go with the flow...😠...sound advice...), could easily, even in the presence of the best of intentions, trying in my own way, to serve your well-being...could just as well...eventuate...find YOU...

In quite a state: "Questionable...Objection-able! Well, at least at the beginning of the next session...as in questioning my intent and, even after all my years of training at the University level and then in the larger theatre of Life, come back and bite me in the..."Just where do you get off...you left me hanging...did you do this on purpose...just what in the hell did you mean by...it stirred both an internal debate and then the whole household got involved, as in that might have been what he said but that's not what he meant...and then there was that last question you asked, as you seemed distracted...as if counting down the seconds until..."

Timing and Delivery: Which has, in its own way, come to include place, if you'll just stay with me a bit longer here..."We're in this together, right...for a noble cause...besides, you came looking for me, asking for answers...and what you got in response were, of course, more questions..." Among which, without trying to have the upper hand, us so-called "therapists" have at our disposal, certain questions when well timed, in the right context, with the correct inflection, might effectively 'provoke' (remember, I told You mor than once this is the favorite part of my roles...) reflection, even a state of readiness for our next scheduled meeting...Which does not leave the seeker defenseless, of course, as I have come to learn, by more experience than training...not simply in the form of we therapists were taught, left behind by Freud and Friends, as "psychological defenses" but also some questions and more often statements...which, only after some decades of "practice" I'm now informed are what the other side call "door knob" questions...statements..."You know, doc, the ones that we make while turning the doorknob, or put our finger on the mouse...while we our-Selves count down...the ones that We have prepped, just to keep you on your toes...make you earn your keep...keep you wondering how We are doing, in between...😕😟🙏..." Yep, what I as a Taurus therapist, have come to call "Zingers!" 

Speaking of Questionable, Zingers: And just when I thought I'd heard it all, in response to some innocent questions, simply designed to raise my own awareness, ensure your own privacy (in the age of what's come to be known as telehealth, how we are now taught as therapists to...), in my Taurus like, having to learn the hard ways, after I had kind of blown off the importance, value, especially after being told I had to, in order to keep delivering services remotely..."Those born under this sign, while having an intense internal drive, sometimes have trouble respecting authority, especially if being asked to do something, they think is point-less..." All this context, a build-up to the early, "setting the stage" Q&A, at the very outset...before even getting to the therapeutic stuff...came a question from me, to what used to be termed a "co-ed" when I was a bit bewildered with the background...noise..."So, Jennie, where are you at this moment, at the appointed time of our appointment...?" Well, ask a silly question and..."Well, doc, We are in the girls locker room at my school...anyone want to ask him any questions while I have him on the line...?"😟😓

Like I Said: "We're in this together...right?" Sometimes it's questionable..."You're way off base doc, could not be further from the truth..." Guess that's why, when They ask Me, I tell Them..."Yes, I'm still in practice..." 

Next...speaking of...questioning, your Wear-abouts...