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Old Oct 04, 2014, 05:24 PM
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I had a couple of therapists that did reparenting with me, but I don't know if they really meant to. One was because I was very young emotionally and still in college while she had kids and a husband and was in her 30's. She reparented me at very young ages such as reading kid books to me and coloring with me. Another therapist was in her 70's when I was in my 30's. She held me alot after EMDR sessions and played with my hair and rubbed my back and I have an idea that was due to the amount of devastation we were reprocessing back to very young ages. Also, she had kids who were older than I. Then another therapist I think consciously tried to reparent me and got upset when I started responding as a child. With my therapist now, there is no reparenting involved. She very clearly tells me and coaches me in how to care for the child(ren) in me, but she won't do it for me, and that is really okay. At first I was kind of put off by this, but I also like how I feel like I am making great strides in my therapy, yet not falling apart waiting for my next session (of course, the fact that this is my only therapist I've ever regularly seen twice a week might be impacting those two things).
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