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Chapter 5
Participant two (before therapy): “[Different therapists] I do not
really know what to think about that... I do not know how it will
be.”
Participant three (before therapy): “No, I do not mind... that six
therapists are involved.”
The three participants did not have clear expectations about working with
multiple therapists in advance, and the expectations differed from one
another. Participant one had reservations about receiving EMDR therapy
from different therapists because he found it difficult to trust people. For
example, when there was a new professional caregiver, he preferred to stay
in his private room, so he did not have to see the new professional caregiver.
Participant two said that he did not know what to expect from the therapy
and that he had no clear expectations of the different therapists either.
Participant three had no problems working with six different therapists.
Participant two (after therapy): “I do not know if I had all six
[therapists]. I thought there were three or so.”
Participant three (after therapy): “Well, I, um... I could handle it
[different therapists]... I actually liked it... I liked that they were
different.”
After completion of the therapy, participants two and three indicated that
they had no problems working with multiple therapists. Participant two
did not realise that he had seen six different therapists; he thought there
were only three. Participant three actually enjoyed receiving therapy from
different therapists.
Participant one (after therapy): “The other [therapist] didn’t
understand me and that made me angry, so I just told her to
go... Because she had known me longer [I preferred her]... She
already knew most things.”
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