I become more and more disappointed with my counselor and I realise it's because I feel she ignores important parts of me and treats me like an acquaintance rather than a whole person to listen to and understand.

She's not a therapist and I've accepted that but she never tries to understand any emotional sides of what I talk about. I don't have any option to switch counselors.

Today after session a cute little dog was in the waiting room, belonging to her next patient. My counselor like rushed to the dog and I stayed a little to pet the dog. My counselor suddenly took the dog and went into another room to show
it to her colleague. Her other patient had already entered the room and waited for session.

My counselor acts way too much as if she was at home and if I visited her just for fun. I appreciate that not everything has to be about mental illness but she shows very little understanding about how I feel. Her acting like this with the dog, meeting with other patients, hearing about her family life can be and sometimes is very triggering to me. And I can't talk about anything of it because my counselor doesn't have a clue about such things.

I felt very empty and frustrated after session because of her ignorant way of talking to me during session.