Thanks dizgirl2011. I am totally with you that even though her intent was positive it was not an OK thing to do. Yes, she came from a psycoanaylisis/psychodynamic program and honestly not a good one at that. She had the opportunity to study under some amazing healers while she was there but those were not the profs she studied under. Come to find out massage T even guest taught a class while she was there!!! I went to that same school for a year before discovering how crappy their full time faculty were... They did however bring in phenomenal adjuncts and guest profs. My current T is an adjunct there.

I met the prof who taught their classes on working with trauma survivors. He is awesome!!! We had lunch together, I read all his books, he is great... but not working with clients any more. She had all his books and all the required reading for his class prominently on her bookshelf so I assumed she studied under him. At the end of therapy I found out that not only had she never taken the class she hadn't read any of the books!!!

I am having lunch today with a friend with more extensive training in hypnosis who has some ideas on how to reverse hypnotic suggestions and the like. I am also confident that massage T will get us through this... it is just frustrating!

thanks for your support.

Hugs!