THIS. Omg, this! So, so relate to the crying before/ after a session, and to the original post. It’s such a challenge. My therapist would probably *love* to hear about all the imaginary conversations we have in my head where I am far more emotional.

I also have an incredibly hard time crying in front of others. And I think it’s one of the sad limits of therapy, we have to condense everything down into an hour a week or whatever. So I find myself with just the limits alone being more in summary mode.

I don’t have a lot of great advice here. I have found making extensive notes after each session in an effort to pick back up the following week has helped. And I have found with time I’ve gotten more and more comfortable with my therapist and much more at ease. Still, I’m making it a major milestone for myself to actually have the need to use his tissue box one day...