Reparenting as a term is controversial I think because some people took it to the extremes of bottle feeding, rebirthing and having the client live with them. I think it takes a client with a fairly advanced ego state, who can see reality and who does not want to become dependent. I myself do not want my T to be my mother, I do not want to become dependent on her, I do not want to be rescued. I worked hard to get where I am in life on my own and I don't want or need someone to come in and take all of that away from me. What I do need is someone who genuinely cares, who genuinely believes in me as a human being, who is willing to really get inside and get next to me as I go through this process.

The more I think about it I think a lot of it is actually like 'traditional' therapy, just a little more intense and maybe a little more intimate (in the purely platonic sense of the word, just two individuals becoming psychologically close).

I can see how some would be creeped out by it but maybe a part of that is fear, or maybe part of that is just that it really isn't what some people see would help them. That's entirely individual and of course, each to their own.