Appropriate times to reschedule?
I’m a doctoral-level extern. I had a supervisor last year tell me I need to learn how to “deal with life when it happens” because I asked for time off after putting my cat down. Not to be dramatic, but this cat was my best friend and closest family member. I didn’t tell her that, but she said that she saw clients in the middle of her divorce and cried during their sessions. She said she would leave it up to her clients whether or not they wanted to keep the session instead of rescheduling. I had many other issues with this supervisor, but this particular one stuck with me and I wonder all the time whether I actually did something wrong or if my clinical judgment is correct. I ended up seeing one client the day I had to put him down because of her comment, but I canceled the rest of my appointments for the day because I couldn’t handle it. I feel like I never got a good answer about how to handle this kind of situation moving forward. How would you guys handle this?