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Sidony, we're all influenced by our upbringing, whether it's good, bad, or mixed. Now your t is teaching you new life skills, you say... but he too has been influenced by his own past, so why does that give him the right to teach you 'skills' when he might have his own issues and prejudices (and might be unintentionally influencing you with them?) I mean that his own problems and issues might negatively influence what he teaches you. For example he might react in one way to a situation - and so he teaches you that's the best way to behave - but in reality there might be another and better way to react. But he's missed that (for some reason) but you have learned another maladaptive way... and you'd think it's good.

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Any therapist worth their salt has had extensive therapy to understand their own journey and to understand what might happen that could impede being a therapist. They understand. They also have specialized schooling... and lots of it... to know what is going on within themselves, know how to look at their issues, and how to perform functional therapy. They know their own buttons and hopefully know how to control them or often they will let the client in on how that could affect therapy if they feel it has. That is the makings of a fine therapist... that can even admit they are human.