Hi all,

Thanks for the feedback, these are all really interesting and helpful responses.

BrazenApogee, just a quick follow-up, what do you mean by "counter-transference?" Sorry I'm pretty new-ish to therapy. As in, he perceives his role in our relationship as one of a "guide" for me? Now that you say that, it is interesting when I think more about it; he tends to give me a good deal of advice, which I assumed was par for the course in therapy, but maybe it isn't?

Also, it's confusing that some days he seems to have a grand agenda of what we are talking about in session and then doesn't ask me if there's anything I want to discuss until the end, and then other days, it seems very free-form/less planned. It's like he almost alternates between the two every other session or something...