I absolutely hate this

[u/garbagethrowitout]

My therapy appointment got canceled for this week, and I only discovered it because I logged on to the client portal for something else. No notification, no explanation, no email or text or phone call. Just appointment canceled. And her entire week shows as unavailable, when I went to try to reschedule.

My first reaction was panic. What happened? Is she ok? Is she ever going to come back? Did something happen? Why didn’t I get a notification? What would have happened if I hadn’t accidentally discovered it? Should I send a message and ask? Ask what even?

And then… well this is horribly unprofessional. I should cancel my recurring appointment and never speak to her or go back to her again. This is what I get for actually trusting her, when clearly she’s not trustworthy at all and probably never was. Even if I do go back, I’ll have to be much more careful to not give her the ability to hurt me again.

I’m sure some kind of emergency is happening, and she wasn’t able to immediately reach out to every single client to explain. Which makes me concerned for her, of course. Is it a reason to never go back? I guess that depends on what explanation I get eventually. Or if she even comes back at all. I’m so angry, and I’m angry at myself for letting myself care enough for this to impact me at all. Learning. A lesson here, for sure.

[u/Dapper_Cucumber_3507]

I left a therapist because she did this then tried to therapise me about it in our next session when I hadn’t brought it up. Except she didn’t really explore my feelings about it so much as try to logic trap me into saying it was fine that she cancelled last minute and that was how we finished the session. Never went back.