[sittingatwatersedge]

T2 sent me an email recently, responding to one of mine. When I saw her this week I told her, I dreamed that I looked in my inbox, and there were two more emails from you - but I never got a chance to open them. So I have to know...

Is there something you want to tell me?
Is there something you want to ask me?

So she told me something, out of the blue, which I find very hard to believe (it was like the describing-red-to-a-blind-man thing, for me) but I am going to work on it. I'm very glad this came about the way it did, we probably wouldn't have gotten to it otherwise I suppose.

If you gave your T the same opportunity, do you think he/she would come up with a question? or a statement? any idea what?

[unaluna]

What great questions! I'm gonna ask.

[Asiablue]

Care to divulge what she told you? I'm kinda curious!

Great question tho... i have no idea what my T would tell me if i asked her that but for some reason the idea of it gives me anxiety!

[stopdog]

I assume the one I see does ask or tell me whatever it might be that she wants to. Or did you mean if she were acting as a person instead of a therapist - like some non- therapy sort of ask or tell?

[Perna]

I think most T's would tell one something good about themselves and the future the T pictures for them rather than ask a question; questions are good, can show curiosity, but it would be the T's curiosity and it's the person's therapy. The reason T's ask questions during therapy is mostly for clarification of what is going on right at the moment, to make sure they understand what you are telling them.

[sittingatwatersedge]

Originally Posted by Perna

The reason T's ask questions during therapy is mostly for clarification of what is going on right at the moment, to make sure they understand what you are telling them.

or
to find out how you would react to a what-if skew on a reported incident
or
to inquire about other similar incidents - to point up a possible pattern you might not have noticed
or
to help you explore other possible solutions besides the one you have just announced as your plan of action
or
a myriad of other things.