sunrise, yes its a defense...and aren't all therapists healers? Becareful of falling into a therapist beleive that the trauma is "all done now"...perhaps some desire to please a therapist ca get caught up in that thinking? If my T is a "healer" then I must get healed or he won't like ne? Trauma takes yrs...its insipid...how we respond to it can become more controllerable...