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Originally Posted by Leah123
"I feel alarmed by her insecurity."
Favorite Jeans, I see your points and appreciate them. My feeling, which I hope to find confirmed when she replies to me, is that she said that in the heat of the moment. Therapists have feelings too, and may say too much on occasion. I've been telling her PTSD fits me to a tee for a couple/few months now, I imagine she's challenged by my recent level of doubt about everything under the sun, and made a valid response, if not a perfect one.
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Yeah I get it. You want to accept that she's human and flawed. But to me this is a concerning kind of reactivity (needing to be right, getting defensive, raising the spectre of termination when you question her.) This is exactly the type of feeling she has been (or should have been) trained to cope with instead of getting her back up. At a minimum I think she should be initiating the discussion of what went wrong for her and apologizing without you having to bring it up. Therapy is a place for you to question and contradict yourself and your T without having to worry much about her feelings. It's her job to worry about yours.