Interesting topic. My T has never cried in session, once I could see in her face that she was moved by what I told her and that made me feel a warmth towards her.

In a way I want my T to cry in session, I now mean on rare occasions, not often. If something has happened in her life and she´s sad about it and she can´t help crying, I wouldn´t mind. I wouldn´t want her to "spill it all out" about what had happened but if she had someone relative passing or something I would just find it natural that she fell into tears.

If she began to cry over something I told her, I would just find it very authentic and genuine and I would feel it as an intense and transformative moment in therapy.


As long as the therapist can handle the crying I don´t mind it at all. By handling it I mean the crying doesn´t occur often nor that the T begins to tell a lot about herself or what happened. That she just said for example "yes, something sad has happened in my family and I got reminded of that".