> she wants to work on my communication skills. Yeah. I have two degrees in communication and do it for a living. My interpersonal skills need some refining, perhaps, but I communicate just fine.

rofl. i have a couple of degrees in analytic philosophy and i don't tolerate it very well when therapists want to work on my cognitive distortions. lets just haul out a text book on bayesian norms of probabilistic reasoning or modal logic and see who can complete the most exercises. bah!

that being said... maybe 'communication' in the sense she means it is partly about... you standing up for yourself in the sense of being able to tell her what you need / desire?

like how... maybe 'rational thinking' in their sense is...

well...

if anybody figures that out, will ya let me know ;-)