I think the humanness of the therapist can have tremendous healing power if the therapist can admit to NOT knowing everything and to making mistakes and to be willing to work through those mistakes with a client. If they have the attitude of being godlike and above the clients then I don't see much healing/helping potential.
My second therapist was very open about not knowing it all and being willing to look at things differently and I assume he would have apologized if he had made a terrible mistake with me. He was very helpful to me.
Of course everyone goes to a therapist for a different reason and healing might not be the reason one is in therapy, but hopefully this sort of makes sense?
In my search and research it seems like too many of them do have a superior attitude.
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