Yes, I have. Shortly after I moved and was test driving some possible new therapists, I told one in the first session that I'd experienced CSA when I young (I told her the age and the "relation" the person was to me). I then told her that I wasn't interested in her bringing this topic up--that if I decided that I wanted to discuss it in any depth with her during any of our sessions, I wanted to be the one to introduce it into the conversation. I told her that I had no problem talking about the "adult" effects this experience had on me and my current mental health but I did not, under any circumstances, want her to ask direct, probing questions about "what happened" all those years ago. I told her that I didn't feel the need to discuss specifics at this point in my life. She agreed.
I went to my second session with her and out of the blue, not directly related to anything we were talking about, she starting peppering me with some very pointed, blunt questions regarding these incidents when I was a child. She so surprised me that I was in a daze for a few minutes and had to struggle to get myself back into my skin. Her behavior really made me angry and I left and never returned. It amazes me sometimes that some therapist have no problem stating their personal boundaries and insisting that client's honor them, but then have no issue stepping all over a client's clearly stated boundary.
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