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Originally Posted by LonesomeTonight
I just think it might be hard for me to trust another T. If they seem too accepting, then it might be like, "OK, they're just saying that, any minute, they'll reject me." In some weird way, it's almost easier now to deal with a T who is less accepting on the surface. Even if it's painful, I feel it would be much farther to fall with a T who seemed more accepting, then turned out not to be.
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Does the experience of feeling safer with somebody who is less accepting feel familiar? That seems like the sort of earlier experience that could show up as a pattern in somebody's life. (You don't necessarily have to answer, just wondering.) The "Okay, any minute you're going to reject me" thing is totally the kind of thing that comes up (probably over and over and over again) in relational therapy. And I can understand why you would be cautious given what happened during that odd hybrid marriage/individual counseling situation with ex-MC.
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Though maybe it would be different if I were seeing a T solely for EMDR or DBT?
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You might even be able to find somebody who does both since they sort of go together, at least in terms of the same people benefiting from both. (My EMDR T does both.)