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I read all of your guys connections and I so badly want that, but I don't know. Somehow I think my T doesn't do that stuff. Do all T's have the basic same kind of training regardless of where they went to school?

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I did not have a connection with my first counselor, and I had no idea that sometimes people do form a special connection with their therapist. She was nice enough, but there was no attachment. We got some work done in therapy, and she had some advice for helping to ease my depression symptoms. Eventually I left her because forward progress ceased, and I found another therapist. It was a big surprise to me when I connected intensely with him. I didn't know that could be a part of therapy or that it would help me move forward with solving my problems. I don't think you have to have a strong attachment with the therapist in order to get some good work done. But it can really, really help for the truly difficult, deep work. (BTW, I don't know if it makes any difference in regard to connection, but my first counselor was a Masters of Social Work and practiced mainly CBT. My current guy is a family systems therapist, eclectic/humanistic/EMDR/gestalt/thekitchensink.)