Stormy, thanks as always for your honesty! I suppose it may be outside of the scope of therapy to "hope" a T "likes" to be around someone... but I do know I would not want to be a client that the T thought "OMG! It is HER AGAIN!" ... you know? I have customers I think that way about and I wish I didn't.. but the honest truth is some personalities work together and some don't. For stuff like who is cooking my food, I can deal with someone not knowing me or liking me. But I honestly want my T to like who I am. I think if T did not like me (the way I actually do like many of my regular customers at work) ... well I think I would pick up on that on a subconscious level. I think that emotion would harm my ability to heal. I would much rather suffer through a termination and referal out than to keep feeling something is wrong but not knowing what it was.
Do you ever have a client you honestly just do not like and you refer them out in hope that they will be a better match with someone else? You don't got to answer - I am just very curious about this. Thanks!!
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