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Originally Posted by PleaseHelp
If you don't mind me asking, what are the specific reasons you feel like you need to look out for her feelings above your own? You are there to work on your issues not hers. I had a smiliar experience with a T, where I felt like I was the one counseling her not the other way around. I have since changed back to an old T, who is in the same building. Just some food for thought.
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It's nothing really obvious. She's shared with me that she has a trauma history and has been in recovery from addiction for 20 years...but she hasn't crossed a line and told me specifics about any of that.
I can just tell when she's tired and overwhelmed, which seems frequent. I've asked her if she's okay and she has admitted that she is tired/overwhelmed but she doesn't go into specifics and she turns her attention back to me right away. But still, I pick up on it.
Also, any time I do show the slightest emotion or share in a more vulnerable way, she gets really excited and praises me up and down...and that makes me uncomfortable. I know she's trying to encourage me to open up more, but it's having the opposite effect. Like, I'm not sharing so she'll be proud of me, yk??