Other. I don't know for a fact how she felt about it and she didn't tell me. The situation was that a family member who was an addict but had been clean died of an overdose. This was obviously upsetting to me. I am aware, although she doesn't know that I know, that one of her children experienced addiction and also overdosed and died. I knew this before I even met her.

I thought about not telling her. But honestly, she says she works with addiction on her website, so to me that meant I shouldn't patronize her and assume she'd fall to pieces.

I won't pretend that I was as forthcoming with all my complicated feelings as I would have been if I hadn't known about her child. I'm not sure there's any reason for that other than not being a complete narcissist.

Maybe I just imagined it, knowing what I know, but seemed to me like she barely responded when I brought it up at my next session. Hard to describe what I mean. I guess maybe it was that she was very blank slate and didn't really seem to have anything to say on the subject apart from reflecting my statements back to me. That's not really a criticism, as I mostly just needed to tell somebody about this terrible thing that had happened and how sad/angry/shocked I was.