Mainly your shame relates to who you are, and she continues to work with you knowing who you are and in fact thinking that you are a good person. With cutting, though, the shame that you might feel has to do with what you have done. Not that you never did anything wrong before, but you can’t think of any outright shameful action that you have done (besides, you think, cutting). You aren’t sure how she would respond to this news about you and you don’t want to risk how she might respond: This is new territory for you.

What evidence, based on knowing her for three years, do you have about how she might respond?

Also: what makes cutting feel shameful for you?