Thanks, yes, I will end up writing from a broader perspective than my own, although I think that the teacher expects something more personal, perhaps areas of potential countertransference issues. And I do know that empathy is not just relating because of sameness, but the ability to be in the other's situation, not your own, so really about difference.

I think I can say some things that are true to my experience of trying to do this set of forms that reflect some authenticity but are also more general. Like I found the experience overwhelming with all the details of what you are supposed to have in place in advance. When in a place of fearfulness and dysregulation, it may be nearly impossible to pull it together enough to manage to establish such a plan, let alone have the wherewithal to pull it off in a threatening situation. Also it requires trust at many levels, trust in others whom you may not naturally trust. And also exposing yourself and your private life to others for the sake of safety which may be really difficult for a client to do if they have been hiding things and for good reason. My countertransference around that would be that I would feel that this would be a problematic thing to do because it would raise all sorts of other issues that could make the person feel more helpless rather than safer and empowered.