Thanks. Yes, I agree that my counsellor can complain about some things at her workplace and at the same time also find other things positive. But she has repeatedly talked about how things were better in "the old days" and exemplified her standpoints with things that has happened to her and to her patients.
That doesn´t rime especially well with her boss allowing her to bring her dog to work as this isn´t a facility where they offer and kind of dog therapy or similar. Noone else (that I know of) brings his/her dog to work. To me it seems my counsellor gets advantages from "being friends" with her boss and that surely isn´t in line with all of those complaints she has brought to me. To me it becomes fake.
I agree there will never be a T "like me" because if he/she lived like I do he/she wouldn´t be a therapist. I though find the class differences between clients and therapists/counsellors problematic as I find it hard to really believe in them.
They also remind me of how rich people get richer and poor get poorer and more or less all my former counselors and therapists have never lived on welfare, they haven´t had such struggles. Of course, everyone has problems but I put this issue in a perspective where some citizens (including me) are excluded from society because of various reasons. Then meeting with a counselor who complains about minor things is just making me lose trust in her.
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Originally Posted by divine1966
Things aren’t that black and white. I complain about things at work. It doesn’t mean I don’t love my job. I do. But there are always things to complain about. T thinks her last boss is better than new one, it doesn’t mean her new boss is horrible. I think my boss is far from great but she is a nice person. I think it’s unfair to assume she is unhappy just because she complained about something
Being married and having dogs and living in city center isn’t unusual or extravagant. You could look for single therapists of course, with no kids or dogs.
But you have to understand that since they work, they have income so they likely have somewhat decent ability to rent or buy a decent place. It’s just a reality.
It doesn’t mean they don’t understand problems. It’s just basic reality of people working, getting paycheck and buying stuff. It doesn’t mean they never had problems or don’t understand other people’s problems.
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