I ran into a few therapists that I felt very ambivalent about. I don't think they were bad therapists; we just had no connection and I just felt nothing around them. I might as well have been talking to a wall. It really wasn't anything they did wrong; it was just a matter of our personalities just not jiving I think. I didn't keep seeing them. I think the longest I stayed with one like that was a couple of months (maybe 5 or 6 sessions). I learned that a general comfort with a therapist was something I personally can pick up on very early on (usually the first session) and if I don't feel it, I move on until I find one where our personalities mesh more comfortably.
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