Hi Echoes and thanks for your post too. You too read her email positively huh? I can't deny there are positive comments in it, which is why I posted the whole thing because I knew I was picking on specific negative things and not hearing the whole message. So yeah not only have you pointed out that she seems to be wanting therapy to go well (as opposed to giving me the brush off as it felt to me) but you've highlighted the fact that she's thanked me for giving her the feedback in the first place - I must say she's constantly saying to me that it's always useful and helpful for me to tell her what I think isn't working (including being angry) and while personally I think yeah yeah you're just saying that because you have to not because you really want to know what you're doing wrong, maybe she really does use my feedback to learn about me. (Mind you if that's the case, she's not showing the learning very much .)

I get what you're saying in the paragraph about her meaning we will keep plugging away together, but I don't understand the first sentence, where you speak of something limited and I might be nearing my limit. Could you explain that for me please? Thanks.

And yeah, if I don't send my ****** email to her (which I won't be doing tonight at least) I'll definitely be bringing up how her response affected me - that's taken over as the prime concern now whereas my original email to her was how I felt the session itself has been rubbish. Good suggestion, thank you.

And thanks for replying