I trust T and even in the beginning trust wasn't an issue for me. I mean, I trusted she would be confidential, create a safe space, have my best interests in mind and work with me in ways I was comfortable with while also pushing me. Do I always like her, NO, but do I trust she genuinely has my mental care as a concern, YES. It took me a solid six months to be comfortable opening up at all but it wasn't distrust with T as much as trusting myself I'm okay and words will not harm me.

This is my second experience in therapy but the first only lasted three sessions as I wasn't ready and the T was hippy. So I have little experience to compare this to but similar to iota what's strengthened our relationship is the ability for each to take responsibility of mistakes. I haven't experienced this before where the person making the apology didn't want something in return. A few times it was apparent what she said was way off mark or impacted me and even if a few sessions passed she brought up the instance and said her part. I was very impressed with that integrity and relational trust was hands down impacted.