Session prep
Client R. · before your next session
This week
Came in circling work, but it keeps sliding home. "I'm fine, just tired" more than once, and tired is carrying more than fatigue. Underneath: being the one who holds everyone together, rarely the one who gets held.
Recurring patterns & loops
Brace, absorb, insist she is fine, then resentment leaks out sideways, usually at her partner on a Sunday.
People & dynamics
Warm and protective about her partner, who is also where the frustration surfaces before she walks it back. Her mother: a day of silence after every call. She calls it close, and says she cannot tell her anything real. She did not reconcile the two.
What they want to move toward
Said, half as a joke, that she wants to stop being the strong one for five minutes. Wants to be asked how she is, but reads needing that as needy.
Questions to open with
What is the heaviest part of tired this week? · What happens right before the Sunday irritation? · Close with your mother, and cannot tell her anything real, can we hold both?
AI-generated reflection from the client's own journaling with Marenn. A preparation aid, not a clinical assessment, diagnosis, or risk evaluation.