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Old Dec 25, 2018, 05:54 AM
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Originally Posted by molimolimolly View Post
Yes I am studying in the UK. I have personal therapy but I have not thought about exploring about that. Somehow I feel a bit embarrassed to have this feelings towards my supervisor and I found myself trying to suppress it. I guess I want to sort it out on my own before taking it to personal therapy or even bring it to my supervision.
I think trying to "sort it out on your own" is unlikely to be enough when it comes to transference of this kind. In order to be the best therapist you can be, you really have a duty to process and explore the nature of your transference. If a similar response arises in you with a client one day and you haven't worked through this stuff in therapy you have the potential to do harm to your clients.

I appreciate it is embarassing and difficult but it's important. Presumably you have PD too? Perhaps you might explore it here?

I say this with kindness and from two positions- firstly, I am a client who has been harmed by a therapist who didn't look at his own processes (or his ineffective supervision) ethically or fully. Secondly, I am a therapist who has a great deal of attachment and transference issues towards my therapists and who has had a number of difficulties with various supervisors. I have had to change supervisors a number of times to find someone with whom I can work to the benificence of my clients. I urge you to consider that whatever decisions you make about how you explore your feelings must, first and foremost, be in the interests of your clients.
Thanks for this!
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