Very interesting! To me this opening line sounds honest and tuned int. I would not believe a therapist whose experience with her clients would be all softy-muffy-super sweet because I would think that this T most probably misses the point a lot of the times. Working with difficult feelings means also working with negative feelings in counter-transference and in order to work with them one first has to honestly recognise them.

I'm wondering if there is any relation between me not finding these blogs condescending and arrogant and my own experience with therapy that is super good. However, I can imagine that many times my T could have written a similar opening line for our sessions. I think to me the important this is not that the T has such feelings but rather how he/she manages them. I've read from this forum that many T's aren't able to manage their own feelings well. My experience is different because my T is super good in that. I see similar feats at least in Linda's blog - I like that she is honest in her feelings but manages them well so her clients feel heard by her.

I find it also possible that some people are triggered by everything therapy related?