No, its not stupid, people with PTSD have a harder time trusting. With your old T you had many years to build that trust and she did help you and guide you. This new T has a different personality and your not knowing whether you click on a personal level is, as I said, very normal.

It took me time to build a trusting relationship with my therapist. If I had to start with someone new, I would have the same concerns as you do now. You just have to give it time. I always consider that I learn something from everyone and I don't "have" to like someone. You're learning and seeing what this new therapist has to offer you in the way of helping you on YOUR journey to healing and thriving. And it takes a therapist time to get to know YOU as well.

And a good PTSD therapist is going to know that you can't be pushed, that you have to feel safe with her for any good therapy to take place. So she may seem a little distant to you, but that is because she doesn't want to push you geez. Shes got to get to know you better and learn how you do best at opening up and trusting enough to move forward. If she has experience working with different patients successfully, she is going to base her therapy on how she learned to interact with the patients she has treated so far. Because everyone is a little different she is going to be observing you for signs of settling in enough to try different things.

Emdr can be a helpful tool because patients are not directed to remember specific things, they are simply allowed to just let any thoughts come forward.

Just keep going to appointments and give it time to evolve into therapy sessions that can help you.

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