Absolutely not. No one could possibly understand me as well as I understand myself. She has never walked in my shoes or seen the world through my eyes. She is limited to what I tell her and how she observes me during our one hour a week in her office. She has never seen me out in the real world, she has never met the people in my life, and she was not there when I was growing up. T can also never be completely objective-- she views me (and everything else) through the lens of her own experience and her own beliefs and biases. I think my T does a good job of relating with me and listening to my experienced, but she can neve understand me fully.

I think being in tune with myself is actually one of my strengths. I would find it disturbing if T thought she had the ability to understand me as well as I understand myself. In fact, if she made that kind of a claim, I would have to find another therapist-- one wit less of a god complex.