Therapy Bits

I had another mentoring apt this morning with my mentor Aisling. It went really well. I told her that I’d got referred to the job coaching service, and now I am on a waiting list and that they told me there would be a 16 week wait to be seen. I also told her that I’d rang them and asked that when my name comes up that they place me with a female job coach and not a male as the last time I had a male and it wasnt a good experience. The lady I spoke to when I rang said that wouldnt be a problem. She said she’d make a note in my file. We talked about my medical card, and my anxiety around possibly losing it if I went back to work. I had made some enquiries, and there is a possibility of me getting a longterm medical card that lasts for much longer than they’d normally give it to you for, but in order to get that or even be considered I’d have to submit letters from dr. barry about my mental health, stating that its longterm, enduring, and not likely to get any better. I’d also have to submit a letter from my resource worker at NCBI about my blindness, saying its congenital. I wont have any problems getting the letters. Its good that I have an open relationship with dr. barry as I can speak openly and frankly to her about my anxiety surrounding the work stuff. My mentor said today that she’d keep a look out for jobs for me, and if she sees any she thinks would suit me she’ll email them to me. I’m not actually really looking that much yet, but I plan on starting to maybe look and upload my CV to places within the next 3 or 4 weeks. At our next session we are going to do up some CV’S. We are going to taylor them to specific jobs. So I am going to do up one for IT jobs, one for jobs surround support work or helping others, one for childcare jobs, etc. Basically one for all of the different roles I could work in. That way if I need to quickly upload one it will be ready to go and I dont have to fiddle around trying to get the CV’S ready when I need them. For the next two or three sessions we’ll work on CV prep. My mentor said it would be good to do that, rather than wait until I start with the job coach. The job coach will also work on CV prep, but I dont want to wait that long. I want to try to start looking for jobs if I can sooner rather than later. I didnt really get a chance to discuss all of this with dr. barry yet, but I will the next time I see her. She knows I’ve been thinking about possibly going back to work. She just doesnt know how serious I am about it. I plan on having a good chat to her about it all in two weeks time. So that was the session. It was a very productive session.

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