With my current T, I started trusting him a little bit the first time we met, and gradually built up until I was able to share harder and harder things with him, and then we reached a milestone in trust after 7 months when I was finally able to bring my H in for couples therapy with him. It took a tremendous amount of trust to do that, and I resisted it for ages. Just takes time to develop trust...

It seems like a number of people do not have trust with their therapists right away, and it makes me wonder about how short term therapy works. I have heard that short term therapy is just 6-12 sessions on specific issues (e.g. with a CBT approach). How can that work if you haven't developed trust yet?