I'm a rather intuitive person, and I can often figure out what other people are sensitive about, or what kind of issues they have going on. I can usually do this with very little information. And right now I see a T who doesn't use much of a persona, so I feel like I'm getting a lot of information about her. I know some stuff from her just telling me, like that she has been in therapy before, and we have discussed our weight issues together, and that's rather obvious.

But I know other stuff from things that she says, like that she is working way, way, way too much and is not giving herself enough time. I know that she is binge eating regularly, and I know this because she brought it up as an example when it really didn't have anything to do with what we were talking about, and her inflection suggested that it was personal. She tends to talk more about something when it is personal to her, and becomes much more expressive and animated. This happened another time when she started comparing something that I do to OCD. And she suddenly had tons of opinions about it, and had huge amount of emotional inflection and talked about it for several minutes. She doesn't treat OCD by the way. She also disclosed that she doesn't have many friends. Oh, and I know that she is not currently in her own therapy, but she does have supervision.

In some ways I like seeing a T who puts so much of herself in her work, but I'm starting to have a hard time not worrying about her too much, and as things stand I have a hard time accepting the one way nature of the therapy relationship. Allowing someone to really connect with me and care for me is hard for me, I have a much easier time caring for others.

Has anyone else her deduced or found out that much about T. How did you feel about it. Have you ever talked about it with your T?

P.S. please don't respond telling me that I'm reading the T leaves, T supports the idea that I am a highly intuitive person, and I know from personal experience that I am often right (although not always, of course).