My therapist will start working my phobia (of the dentist) soon. I told him about my phobia a month ago but we're taking it super slow because I'm ashamed of my phobia. Up until this point we've only talked about how it felt to tell him.

Has anyone done phobia work? What was it like? Did your therapist try systematic desensitization? From what I gather it involves visualization a followed by relaxation/grounding. I'm feeling really uncomfortable about starting this. It'll be very different that my typical sessions and that concerns me.

Since I'm in therapy to work on relationships my therapist and I spend tons of time talking about our relationship. I'm scared there won't be time for that anymore he says he works with phobias a lot but has never worked on my particular phobia. He seems confident, so why can't i?

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