Timeline - March 14

We met with David Cohen again. I'm really impressed with how he handles the meetings. He's really good at brutal honesty. I think that's important.

We started off with the issue that triggered this all: D's decision not to share his test results. David asked D why he did this and what was he thinking. He also asked me and C what we thought about it.

My big concern is that without knowing (for sure) what's going on, I'm constantly second guessing D and his actions. I want to have honest communication and we can't do that without openness.

D said he always planned to share the results; he just wanted to have some control.

David pointed out that trying to keep one part of the picture hidden doesn't work. He couldn't talk about how counseling was going if he couldn't also talk about drug use (or no drug use). He talked about the fact that the test results aren't usually shared in that detail with the client. D probably won't be getting all the reports unless he asks for them. He also pointed out that one of the first casualties in abuse is honesty and that it's in D's best interest to not go down that path, not try to play that game. David finished up by saying that he won't work with someone who's trying to hide things, because it just doesn't work. The whole "elephant in the room thing"

I thought David made a lot of good points and D seemed pretty responsive. I'm hoping that when we meet with Peer Services D will change his directive and we can have a more fruitful conversation. If the recommendation is 1-on-1 counseling, I lean towards David Cohen, rather than Peer Services, partly due to the location partly due to be more impressed with how conversations went. David Cohen seems to treat all of us as his clients, while Peer Servies was much more focused on D. On the other hand, if the recommendation is for group sessions, David Cohen doesn't do that.