In my search for a new T, I’m trying to weigh up whether I should try a different theoretical approach to what I’ve had in the past.
My experience is with person centred therapy, I really need the empathic, compassionate and non judgmental approach but found that it seemed to lack guidance and progress as the sessions were completely dictated by me when perhaps it would have been better for the T to say how about we talk about this today? Plus the fact that person centred Ts don’t believe in dealing with transference which is a big issue for me.
I’m debating trying psychodynamic as I know a lot of my problems stem from childhood but I’m worried about there being a lack of empathy and compassion which would then mean I would struggle to trust.
So I guess I’m just looking for experiences and thoughts on the different styles of therapy to help me make up my mind. Anyone had a really empathic and understanding psychodynamic T or is it all about them being a blank state with no emotion?