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Originally Posted by Asiablue
You definitely need to be comfortable with people crying if you want to be a psychotherapist. It sounds like you have a lot of underlying issues you need to work on in our own therapy. If you don't feel empathy towards others, then what is your motivation for becoming a psychotherapist? Seems like a strange choice of career.
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I never actually said it out loud and did provide the comfort needed in that process for my client. I however did realize that while I addressed to my clients need, I was not comfortable with it and that was the last session I decided to take. Ever since i have distanced myself from therapy. Rule number one, never do any harm
I haven't been unempathetic, I mean that's me judging myself when it comes to crying, otherwise I usually do fine in sessions. Several reasons why I want to be a therapist. One of them is that now I can see and appreciate how difficult it might be for some to go through counselling, I can relate to that so I want to be there to support them, and assist them to achieve their true potential because i do want to be able to provide someone with an environment where they feel unconditionally appreciated. And this is why I really want to work through this fear of having people cry or cry myself in public.