TayNat, I just want to let you know that my T causes significant anxiety for me also. It took me a while to recognize it as anxiety. After one session I blamed not being able to talk to her much on a dry mouth, which I attributed to singing too much in the car on the trip there, and the stuff that I was drinking. The next time I avoided singing enroute and took a different drink with me, and still had the dry mouth. When I wrote to her I told her about that, and said that since that only happened when I was with her, she must be the cause. She responded by asking me how she could be the cause of a dry mouth, and what feelings I was having when that happened - after thinking about it I said nervousness and fear. She accepted fear, but said she was thinking anxiety. It still happens every time, after labeling it. Last time I took gum with me, and that helped the dry mouth, but I still couldn't talk much.

I realize that panic attacks are much harder to deal with than dry mouth, but wanted you to know that you're not alone in reacting to T with anxiety. And I think it would happen with any effective T who gets you to deal with the uncomfortable stuff, if you are prone to anxiety. I'm glad that you are going to stick with her and work through it.