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Old Jan 24, 2018, 12:47 PM
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I agree that you shouldn't apologize. Your p-doc seems overly sensitive.

I'm having a similar experience with my marriage counselor. Won't go into it all here, but the relevant part is how on a phone call last night, he told me that some things I'd said in the past month have hurt him. And also that he's felt frustrated with me on numerous occasions. I told him that I thought therapists were supposed to deal with those sorts of feelings on their own time, rather than sharing them with clients. He disagreed. I feel like it's making the therapy about him, not me (and H). I also had some strong transference for him for a long time and kind of idealized him. Lately, I've been more critical of him and standing up for myself, and it's like he can't deal with that. He's used to me treating him like a god or something. He gets very defensive, and when I called him on that, he admitted it's a problem of his. But apparently he wasn't self-aware enough to realize he was doing that and correct it/apologize for it without my pointing it out (on numerous occasions).

OK, will stop hijacking your thread. But basically, I feel like therapists should keep their feelings out of it unless it will serve the client. Both in your case and mine, it did not. (And MC has said before that I shouldn't care about his feelings...)
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