I had one who was verbally assaultive--making derisive proclamations about me without really much information. Fortunately (I guess), it happened pretty much from the second session. It was so early that I wasn't invested, and by the third appt., I couldn't take it and quit.

I have always felt the guilt and shame of it, knowing there was someone in the world that, upon just seeing me, could act so hateful. I've wondered if some of it may have been that I was referred by a couple of her clients whom I later found out did not like me, so it could have been partly that she was going off of their impressions, but it felt like just being ground into the pavement.

Funny this is, the two people who referred me to her had been cheating me out of work I really needed (I had unwittingly brought them into the field and opened doors). The loss of work, and blow to my self esteem, caused me to lose my home and live on the edge for several years. The whole scene with the therapist and these other people was toxic, but as I was in the dark with what was happening with the two so colleagues, I had no idea what I was stepping into. I really tanked after that.

So, while it's not the same duration or intensity of what you went through, I can understand the feeling of being shamed by a therapist.