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Originally Posted by scorpiosis37
My long time T retired in November, so I tried starting with a new T. A few weeks in, a friend of mine made an unwanted move on me. (He is a man and I am an out lesbian). I told the new T, and she tried to ask what I could have done differently or how I could have prevented the situation. My answer: NOTHING. If someone does something without your consent, it is NOT your fault. I never went back to that T. I am so sorry this happened to you and that your T made things worse. It is NOT empowering to ask the victim what they could do differently; that is victim blaming. T's need to stop trying to use that outdated and ineffective method and support their clients.
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Thanks so much. I'm so sorry that happened to you, and I'm really glad you had the intelligence and self-respect to quit therapy with someone like that. I am still in a kind of self-blame state, and I want my T to help me past that rather than turn it into something about "responsibility." I don't know if she will be able to. This scares me because I have been seeing her for 3 years and feel very dependent. Also I am terrible at being assertive. But I think reading your message will help me express this to her a little better.