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I've been seeing a psychologist for about a year now, and I still find it extremely hard to talk to her.

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">Do you think this is a general reluctance on your part to share really difficult information, and you would have difficulty with any therapist? Or do you think you just don't "click" with this psychologist and might do better with someone else? If the latter, maybe it is time to seek a different T. Not everyone is a suitable match. If the former, it sounds like trust issues. These are so common in therapy, as others here have said! You need to build trust slowly and sometimes it takes more than a year. By sharing little things and observing the therapist accept them with empathy and caring, we learn to trust, and can move on to the bigger and more important things. I remember after seeing my T for about 6 months, I revealed something one session and he was flabbergasted. Why didn't you tell me this before? he asked. I hadn't deliberately kept it hidden from him, and we had indeed shared other sensitive information, but this other thing just wasn't ready to come out yet. Stuff will come out when you are ready. "Forcing" the issue is often couterproductive. I agree with others here, to have a discussion with your T about how you feel you haven't gotten to your real issues yet, and you feel stuck.

Best of luck.