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Originally Posted by monalisasmile
As a t I can firmly say I do understand but only because I have been through the throes of ET so many times myself. It's so painful and heartbreaking. I only wish that therapists did understand but I can say that on my training I was the only t in training who had experienced it. The others tried to understand but I could see the looks of horror and judgement on their faces. I did my research on it this year for my degree and a lot of t s have had no training on it. We touched on it very briefly but nothing in depth. My research focussed on the therapists reactions and as I suspected none of them wanted to work with these clients. I feel so sad as i read that, as I looked into it further a lot of it was because they hadn't learnt anything about it in their training but also because they found it terrifying.
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thanks for sharing this information, but i find what you, and even lucozader, say about your experiences quite discouraging to hear. if these are the kinds of reactions that you were getting while in training to become therapists, then to me this indicates that there is very little hope that those clients who do experience ET with their T will get the proper help that they need and may even end up worse than when then they first started therapy because of a therapist's lack of training, ignorance, or incompetency to handle the ET. seems like a clients best hope is if they meet someone like you who has experienced this in therapy themselves, and from what you guys indicate, this seems rare.
i'm curious though, is there anything proactive that you guys can do or have tried to do as Ts who have experince this very phenomenon and the overall unhelpful reactions to it and bring more awareness to it within the profession?