I could never have a blank slate therapist. I do much better when I have facts. Minor details help easy my anxiety (i.e. where are you going on vacation). Things that impact the therapeutic relationship are also important (i.e. L being pregnant). For me, too, it helps to navigate cartain things that might pop up in a non-therapeutic relationship. I do think dosing disclosures and not over disclosing are important, too.

I'm grateful for the amount of details L discloses. It really does help reduce my anxiety, process how the information affected me, and develop a closer bond with her.

P.S. - LT, L and I have a joke about being eaten by bears. Her first vacation she had with me as a client was she went camping. Of course, my mind went straight to fearing a bear would eat her...lol. There's also a saying on a t-shirt I found that says "what doesn't kill you, will make you stronger. Except bears. Bears will kill you".