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Originally Posted by pegasus
Oh gosh, I'm really sorry for you. Usually you both work towards termination and gradually taper off the therapy sessions and then end it when you both agree. You and your therapist work together on it and it shouldn't be a surprise. This therapist didnt sound very good for you, I hope you find another, more professional caring therapist. 
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Thank you.
It feels from him that its my fault.
Though I believe what is happening after doing research and he probably unaware of this.
Is this
Countertransference – when a client triggers the therapist’s issues.
It has been a long established rule of good therapists never to take on a client who will trigger personal issues. The therapist who has been raped may not be able to cope with the raped client. The therapist with children who finds out her client is a paedophile or the client who triggers off mother-issues with the therapist who has not resolved her own childhood. These well-meaning people can sometimes unwittingly do more damage than good if they have not received their own therapy or supervision.
Because they were triggered about me saying to them the things they hurt me and I was about to leave the session and then they told me because they are "asain" they were brought up in a ural town among white kids and was told he was doing things wrong all the time and it affects them today.
Also when ever I say hey I don't think this is working for the past 18 months they just shut off. So there whole body language closes up and no eye contact.
Then you tell them how they've behaved upsetted you or what they said upsettwd you and there get go of a line is "Im only human"
I thought to myself. Well you can say that so many times until you take responsibility of it.
The next thing I feel what is going on is this.
Abandoning the client with abandonment issues.
Most long-term, emotionally volatile clients have rejection, abandonment and anger issues. Myself included. Sometimes therapy can become a self-fulfilling prophesy. In the Freudian theory of repetition-compulsion we are compelled to repeat the past with significant others. We create in the therapy room the same conditions in our outside life. The good therapist should know this, be on the look-out for it and have an action plan to deal with it. The good therapist should not take transference personally. Clients do get angry in therapy and it is up to the therapist to work out who the client is actually angry at. One cannot abandon a client the same way one cannot abandon a newborn baby. Marsha Linehan with her Dialectical Behavioural Therapy has the right approach when she says that the only reason a client gets terminated is if they miss four sessions in a row, other than that the client is always right.
He told me I should get angry at therapy at him and use my time.wisely. well I did that and he didn't like it and took everything personally.
Never.did he say recongise who I was actually angry at.
I believe he cut the therapy short out of his own Countertransference due to the letter I wrote of the things he has said the last 18 months that have upsetted me.
I say this because I have no other explaination for it.
Also I must add that he told me in the last session bringing the letter in that I wrote who I gave to my keyworker. "We already gone through this"
It felt so dismissive. All I wanted was to go through the letter together step by step and cleaf it all up.