This T says she is not going to treat you like a delicate flower. I would say that Ts more or less should treat their clients in a delicate way, because if someone comes to see a T it is usually because they are experiencing problems, so they are already in a painful and vulnerable place to begin with, and then they need to take a risk and share these things with a T and trust that T, making them even more vulnerable. I think that "I'm not going to treat you like a delicate flower" just would not wash for me, in terms of the therapeutic relationship.

Of course sometimes T might want to speak about difficult topics or say something that is hard for the client to hear. I think they need to do this carefully and delicately, and on the basis of a trusting relationship which the T has put a lot of effort into first.