I have started with a new therapist and she is much better and has a lot more experience. Her bio speaks of Trauma treatment and PTSD.

The issue is that so far she has only listened to my story. She has also started saying things like 'I don't follow any defined treatment model', 'I don't follow a list of steps', 'I want you to lead this', and 'I want you to be in control'. Mean while she just listens to my story and writes stuff down she finds interesting. As far as I know she has done no analysis and when I asked about her steps and experience with c-PTSD she told me that she had to get to know me and that this would be fluid.

Everything I have read suggests that c-PTSD trauma survivors respond best to a staged therapy. I could provide loads of references, but anybody that has done any reading about c-PTSD has seen that phase oriented treatment is almost always recommended.

Psychoanalysis? I have not gotten anything like that from her. I have told stories, she has told me a bunch of stuff I already knew, and told me that I had already made a lot of progress on my own (in reference to my coping strategies, and how operational I was based on my past). But what I came to her for was healing and dealing with the source of my problems. I am dealing with the symptoms pretty well already.

I have been told that I will not get in touch with my emotions while I am being so analytical, but I also feel like I need to know where we are headed before I invest in weeks of therapy.

Thoughts.