fuzzy, I did have a trust issue with a therapist I saw briefly, a long time ago, when I was in college, and this came up in my current therapy. It created issues for my new therapist and me--trust, etc. We had to spend some time resolving this distrust of the therapist from my past. Truly, I had not thought about this original therapist for decades, but those things have a way of coming up in therapy if they need to be dealt with, which we did. In that way I was able to knock down one barrier to trust with my current T. There were others, but that was an important, hidden one from the past.

If you find a therapist you like, just keep working at the trust issue. It's not easy, I know. Give him opportunities to "prove" he is worthy of your trust, and each success will take you a little further down the road. Good luck.

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sometimes the difference between different countries and their attitude to therapy and the therapists available seems like different planets

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fuzzy, that's very interesting to me. Can you say more? What country are you in? I am in the U.S., and I think many here would roll their eyes at the thought of therapy and consider a person very weak or self-indulgent to partake--kind of the Woody Allen stereotype. But there are certainly other people who consider it pretty acceptable. I've told my boss I see a therapist, and she has told me she has seen a family counselor with her kids, and neither of us has judged each other for that. What did you mean by the "therapists available"? Do you mean the types of therapists--what approach they take--such as CBT?