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so when does one start to feel comferble with their T?
</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">It's different for everyone and can take months. Your T should give you the space to develop trust. If she isn't, ask for it.
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today I have to share my assigned journaling with her and I'm just not ready or wanting to.
</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">You don't have to share your journal! Journals are very private. It's only your second session--it would be too early for most clients. So you're not unusual for feeling this way. If you shared your journal because you felt forced to and were uncomfortable about it, it might end badly. She might read and then make a comment that you took the wrong way and you would feel she hadn't really understood you or wasn't sympathetic or something awful. And then you might never want to risk that again, which could set back the development of trust a long time. Way too early to do this! Stand firm on what you're ready for. All this is part of therapy--learning what we want and need, being able to express that, learning to set boundaries. You're bumping up against all that really early. Hang in there.
Good luck!
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