It definitely counts as piecing. I encourage you to start interviewing solutions-based MCs right now so once the money issues are taken care of you can get right into MC.

Honestly, if H and I hadn't been in MC together, I don't think we would have made it. She helped us navigate all the issues that led us to our breakdown, and she helped us hear each others' perspectives. H and I stayed in MC for about 2 years, a good year-plus going weekly.

Be on guard not to slip back into old habits. Piecing is tough work, and it never ends. DBing is for life.

SD

Me: 40
H: 43
H had EA from 2/06-9/06
Bomb 5/06
Piecing since 9/2006
3/2008: Boundary setting
7/2009: Boundary crossing~dropped my own bomb.
8/2010: Marriage finally on track!