When I first read your post I was thinking that it could be a very helpful thing for clients to see, but then I thought of my own first session with previous T - I perceived her as being fearful and awkward at first and, well, those are my issues... It was not helpful to the relationship at all, disastrous really. I was so angry and upset. It wasn't rational and it wasn't really judgement either - or at least it didn't feel that way at the time. I wasn't even sure why I was so angry, but I can say it destroyed what potentially could have been a good working relationship.
Not that you can't disclose your SI down the road a bit. At the right time it could be very helpful and validating, but probably not at the beginning.
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At poor peace I sing
To you strangers (though song
Is a burning and crested act,
The fire of birds in
The world's turning wood,
For my sawn, splay sounds,)
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Dylan Thomas, Author's Prologue
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