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Old Aug 09, 2016, 07:06 PM
Sarmas Sarmas is offline
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Originally Posted by LonesomeTonight View Post
I know you're not done writing about the session, but one thing in the beginning jumped out at me. That she said she was angry at you. Did she mean she didn't write back until Friday because she was angry? Both my T and marriage counselor have said before that I shouldn't worry about their feelings. Like I can tell them that they upset me or that I'm annoyed with them or whatever, and I don't need to be concerned with their reaction to it. Like I shouldn't be like, "I don't want to hurt your feelings." Because that's one of the huge differences between the T-client relationship and a friendship. In a friendship, you *should* worry about the other person's feelings. But with a T, at least from my understanding, you don't have that obligation (of course I still worry about hurting their feelings or them being angry at me, because that's just how I am).

So it seems like, here at least, she's letting her feelings interfere with your therapy, like maybe a countertransference thing? Won't say any more till you write about the rest of your session, but that just grabbed me.
I agree with you. T's feelings shouldn't be involved being that the session is all about you and your feelings and not hers .
Thanks for this!
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