That’s how I used to feel with my old T when I was doing psychodynamic therapy. She made me feel like every little move I made or expression on my face was going to be deeply analyzed. I closed up and kinda almost curled up in a ball in therapy most of the time because of that. But there was one plus side to that, I was able to communicate a lot with her through my body language so sometimes I didn’t have to say anything for her to know what the problem was. While that was nice and left me feeling connected in a way, it was still wildly uncomfortable.

Current CBT T just calls me out on my body language when I’m “acting like a child.” And tells me to start acting like the grown adult I am lol. Shows you the difference between the two schools of therapy for sure.