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Originally Posted by ElectricManatee
I think it's the level of detail in LT's posts and the way she so compellingly describes her feelings and her therapeutic relationships. I think a lot of us feel like we're a fly on the wall in her sessions, which seems to naturally lead to fascination and emotional investment.
I also think this current issue is a fascinating one because it isn't totally clear-cut, at least not to me. I do know what I would do in this situation (I'd be out the door at the word "creepy"), but that's based on the difference between what my therapy is like and what LT's therapy is like. I don't think she has an objectively bad therapist, but I do think there is a crucial question here of how close the "fit" needs to be for therapy to be successful. Is this exactly what she needs? Is it the exact opposite of what she needs? I can't say for sure, but I'm trying to work within her framework of not wanting to leave this T since that was what she expressed in the first post of the thread.
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Thank you. This is a very nice and much more eloquent way to describe the situation than my crude, "straight shooter" approach. I wish I was that articulate and eloquent.
I am also staying withing the framework of her not wanting to leave this T. I never said or implied that she needed to do so. Apart from respecting her wishes, I genuinely have no idea whether she needs to do it or not. Even if she didn't ask people to refrain from advising on that, I would refrain simply because I am in no position to offer such advice. I don't attend her sessions, I don't generally read her therapy stories (sorry, it is what it is) and I don't know how her T would describe the same situation, which is to say I don't know the other side of the story. So, I have very little information to judge her T as either objectively "bad" or objectively "good".
I am only responding to the SPECIFIC information she presented in her OP. My opinion is not about the T as a professional in general, but about his SPECIFIC actions, as she described them in her OP.