Ever felt your therapist was protective of you?

Mine hasn't actually been protective, but she has felt protective, and that was healing for me. It was during the most intensely painful part of my therapy. I could tell because of the way she reacted and comments she spontaneously blurted out. When I could tell she felt protective, it wrapped me in a warm cocoon for days

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When I began seeing my PrevT- I disclosed my PDoc was being intimate with me. She said I needed to choose therapy with him vs. her. I was so confused. I replied something to the effect that I wanted to keep her as my therapist but also keep him as a lover. The next thing I knew, she had admitted me to the hospital.

She protected me when I could not protect myself. I will always be grateful she rescued me.

I do not know if mine really is protective of me, but I feel like he is. I think it's because he is a man. My female therapists felt more nurturing. Maybe I'm just being sexist haha.

I started seeing my new T after my partner broke up with me. It started as couples counseling and for some reason, moved to individual sessions with just us. Whenever I have problems with my partner (we eventually got back together, but not until a year or so later), I can tell my T gets protective if she feels my partner has wronged me. Similarly, if something sad has happened to me, T displays great empathy.

I don't think it necessarily has to do with me or our relationship, but her ability to be compassionate. She has admitted to me that she's always been kind of emotionally sensitive, so I can see how she'd feel a lot for people.

I have been seeing my T for 18 months now. I have a pretty extensive trauma history and I am actually going 3 times a week for therapy. (Good insurance. LOL)

Anyway, we have openly discussed the transference I have for him (father-figure), as I was embarrassed by it, especially since he is probably 15 years younger than me. I had never experienced transference before and I always thought it meant you were romantically in love with your T, which I'm not, although he is very good looking.

In explaining that transference is normal in a therapeutic relationship, he also mentioned counter-transference and how he has counter-transference where he feels over protective of me. He said it is something that he discusses and works on in "supervision". He then asked me how I felt about him disclosing that. He said he told me, because I was freaked out about my transference and he wanted me to know it's really quite normal, but then he wasn't sure if I considered his sharing as "crossing a boundary". I didn't and I actually appreciated that fact that I was cared for. His protectiveness just made me feel more safe to share my trauma.

I think that was very brave of him to admit that. But it obviously paid off and normalised it all for you.

Yes in her own professional way. She shows a lot of concern when I do dangerous things, when I hurt myself, or when something bad happens, etc. She tries to help me figure things out. She just generally cares and that's her own protectiveness of me. She doens't want bad things to happen to me.