Ooooh yes these prompts are difficult. My T will often plant a seed by making a comment or statement then let it go. I usually pick them up later after the session. These are often what I repond to via email between the session. Little comments like..."Hmm, I wonder if you are avoid her." Or "That's interesting, what do you think was behind that reaction?" A lot of times I don't the prompt until later when the anxiety is less.

Early in my therapy I was so resistent to responding at all. My T has mentioned abuse a few times as kind of a brainstorming for possible reasons for things. Every time I just let it drop like I didn't hear it. Finally at one point something came up and my T refused to go forward without me answering her question. "___, you weren't sexually abused we you?" I remember she asked this 3 times that session before I finally acknowledge the question with, "well, it depends on how you define abuse." Man did I pay for that response!