I had four prior therapists. One was amazing, life changer, one was horrendous, one was textbook, fine but brief, and the one I saw longest, two years, tended towards invalidating, just a bad fit.

After a 20 year gap, I'm back in therapy and I have spent session time talking about three of the four. I've talked about my positive therapist several times, maybe.... a couple hours worth spread out over many sessions. I've worked through some of my issues with the invalidating one as well, even writing to her in the present to get my old records and talking that through with my therapist. So, I spent probably a couple hours talking about her too and have mentioned her several times. I've mentioned my worst therapist as well... again, maybe spent a couple hours talking about her impact on my life, her betrayal, unresolved feelings/transference.

I'm glad to have had the chance to share those important relationships with my current therapist, to put them in perspective and use my knowledge of what worked and didn't work with those women to help improve my current therapy. It's been very helpful.