i know a fair amount about my new t because she has so much info on her website and she has a home office, so i probably see her as being more normal than having an idealized picture of her. i really prefer it that way and i do like to know a little something about them. the first two ts i had i knew nothing about and i think that is just strange. i'm not sure that is actually helpful for the client. i don't feel that it was for me.

my last t was my same faith and quite open. i've found that to usually be the case with ts in my faith because we all see ourselves on the same level spiritually and it carries over to other areas like therapy. we sort of became friendly after therapy because of talking about faith things and forwarding emails et al. both she and my current t are much older but really great women who are rather out of the box, i.e. creative, funky, both teach classes, etc. they are very different from my family background but more like me than women i grew up around who were very conservative and more traditional.

gosh, i'm blabbering on and could write even more about my old mentor (she was a t but not in that role with me) and how we'd see each other at church and how it was. we even worked together too but she was only in the office one day a week.