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Originally Posted by FallingFreely
To be fair, I think the point of therapy is to acknowledge those needs and channel them outside of therapy. For example try to build more intimate friendships, find a partner to fulfill physical needs, and so on.
What I'll call the 'Big Problem' is when clients become fixated on the therapist and assume the therapist is the only person who can meet those needs. A therapist needs to be really skilled and really patient to help a client through it. Otherwise, there is a wide potential for damage.
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I need to build more friendship anf I want to find a partner. But I'm not in the right place to do that yet. I hope to start college in September and school is a good place to meet new people.
I don't think my T is the only person who can meet my ''needs''. I understand very well that it isn't the job of a T to fulfill your needs. But I long for some contact of her. And I feel ashamed to tell her that.