Do you believe the therapist wants or knows what is best for you?

I think she wants whats best for me.
Sometimes she does seem to 'know' what that might be, other times it's a bit hit and miss.

He absolutely wants the best for me and often does know what will be the best for me -- not always, but a fair amount of the time -- but we are pretty in sync about such things.

I voted yes. For the most part, in a broad sense, I think he does.

I answered other because I know she wants what is best for me and sometimes thinks she knows what is best but will not come right out and say it as she wants me to figure it out. There have been a couple of times where she has said I really want you to do x. Typically it has to do with medications and me stopping them. Occasionally she makes suggestions but will always tell me that she would like me to consider something. Every time she does either of these she wants me to do what I feel is best and no matter what it is she supports my decisions.

I think my T wants me to be happy with myself, and hasn't said or done anything that has made me think she knows whats best.

My therapist has a very good heart, and she knows me SO well. I know she wants what is best for me and 99% of the time she knows what is best. If i dont like something she thinks though, i tell her if i disagree. But she is usually right.

My therapist has proven with her actions that she wants what is best for me. I don't think she always knows what is best for me. Sometimes she suggests something that I disagree with. I can tell she has my best interests at heart and that means a lot to me.

Its possible that she knows what's best for me. Who knows? She'd never tell me what to do. She really doesn't advise me and I don't generally ask her what she thinks I should do. When I do ask, it's sort of a joke, like why the F is she such a crappy psychic. The most she offers are her thoughts about what could be going on and even then she usually ends with something humble like "does that seem to fit at all, or is it not like that?"

I feel that she wants what's best for me. She wants me to be healthy and happy and strong. But she never pretends that she knows my way there. The most proscriptive she gets is to encourage me to try to notice something or pay attention to how I feel when X happens.

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I thought my T knew me but he has shown he doesn't. He does not know what is in my best interest. Very sad because we had been together for a long time.

I voted other. I DO believe my therapist wants what's best for me, but what SHE thinks is best for me and what I KNOW is best for me are not the same thing.

Sometimes the meatgrinder is in the therapist's office.

Nope. I truly believe that the only one who knows what's best for me, is ME!
Even when I was extremely depressed and a danger to myself, I was the one who had to make the decision to get better. I could listen to what others had to say, but in the long run, I was the one who had to make the changes to get myself back on track. My therapist at the time was there to listen, help me sort out some of my irrational thoughts, help me clarify my options and to support me in my decisions.

"sometimes it strikes me that what I do with them is somewhat not the usual". Quote by Stopdog. Couldn't figure out the correct way to partially quote something.


Understatement of the year but I think I'm starting to figure it out. We all have our own reasons for going and what we take out of it.

I believe my t wants what is best for me. I think he cares for me. I don't know if he always knows what best for me but he usually does seem to know which is comforting.

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I am convinced that my therapist wants what's best for me. I don't think he knows what's best for me anymore though.

I believe my therapist has my best interest at heart. It is a collaborative effort.

I've never believed a therapist knows what's best for me. But in my past there were many times I didn't know what was best for me, or wouldn't do what was in my best interest. I used the therapist to help get rid of the damaging messages that caused me not to do what was in my best interest. I now know that I have choices.