mckell, I think you're being really hard on yourself. You hardly know this therapist--8 sessions is not that long. It's understandable if you haven't been able to share something as big and traumatic as abuse with her. I think I was with my T for almost 6 months before I spilled the abuse stuff. He was appalled. I think we both thought we had a really close relationship and he was really taken aback at first that I had kept this important thing from him for so long. I didn't mean to, I just wasn't ready to share. Can you use this early time in therapy to build your relationship with your T? Build trust and sharing with smaller, less consequential stuff. Then when you are ready, you can move on to disclosing the big stuff. Don't rush it. Someone once told me that in therapy no one is ever sorry they waited too long to share something, but a lot of people are sorry if they share too soon, before they are ready.