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Old Jul 17, 2019, 03:53 PM
kiwi215 kiwi215 is offline
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Originally Posted by koru_kiwi View Post
thanks for sharing your inspirational story! i too have found many of the things you listed above to be the most beneficial in my own healing and for helping me to get out of an unhealthy therapeutic relationship and harmful therapy, especially:

- The book "The Body Keeps the Score"
- Website therapyconsumerguide,com (by user Ididitmyway on this forum... thank you!!)
- Emotional Abuse in Psychotherapy | TELL: Therapy Exploitation Link Line
- First, Do No Harm: Abusive Psychotherapists | Psychopaths and Love
- When Therapists Do Harm | The Ferentz Institute
- Neurofeedback
- Love and support from people who genuinely care about me and love and support me

the most helpful of that list being the love and support of my husband and the neurofeedback therapy.

i too have also remained in contact with my ex-T since ending therapy over two years ago and we have had quite a few conversations about my struggles of the therapy with him. he actually acknowledged and apologised to me in person and admitted, knowing what he knows now, he would have done some things quite differently. for me, that moment was priceless because it helped me to finally feel at peace with what had happened. similar to you, i can now view the process i experienced (including my years in therapy and post therapy) from a new perspective. for me, it feels as if it was somewhat a necessary 'process' for me have had that helped propel me forward to finally be able to experience all the new and positive changes in my life. i'm not saying that it in necessary for clients to have a bad experince in therapy to make these type of life changes, but i personally refuse to let the harmful experiences overpower me or my life any further. i'm using it as a means to learn, grow, and further empower myself as i continue on my journey through life.
Thank you, and I am sorry that you too have had such an experience... but always glad and inspired to hear that you have been able to be empowered by it!

I should probably clarify that T#8 never did respond back to that email I sent her. I think it would’ve been against the clinic’s policy to do so.... and/or she never opened/read the email in the first place when she realized it was from me. But that’s okay. I wasn’t expecting a response anyway.
Thanks for this!
koru_kiwi