What tangible object or personal item that says a lot about you or has deep meaning for you would you consider sharing with your therapist? What would you hope it would help them to understand about you?
What a great question!
There is a small rock that I can hold comfortably in my hand. I found it at the entrance to a local cemetery while...
In therapy, is there a particular topic, you absolutely won’t discuss? Possibly, your therapist, sensing something, eluding to an additional area, of concern.. still, the decision, no.. for now, an impossibility.. has this happened, for you?
There isn’t anything I refuse to discuss in therapy, like nothing in particular that I’m avoiding but feel I should be facing.
That said,...
From a psychotherapist’s perspective, what happens to the emotional intimacy that was once present when the therapeutic relationship with a client ends? Where does it go? How do they think about it?
Gosh, I can’t say for sure as I’m not a psychotherapist. I sure hope Adam Park answers this one as he works a lot with attachment.
As a c...
How is your therapist, these days? Is she changed, in her appearance or her health, since the beginning of the Pandemic? How are you? In what ways, have you changed?
I had my first post-covid shutdown session with M about a month into it, and that was one of just a very few times that M disclosed more ...
How is your attachment? Do the feelings sometimes weaken, or even disappear, on occasion? Does your attachment strengthen, following a particularly difficult disclosure?
Checking in on my attachment to M, it feels solid and secure. I’ve been quite busy lately and don’t know exactly when my next session wil...
My therapist brought in 2 teddy bears to our session this week. A big teddy representing the adult part & a small teddy representing the child part. Is it awkward to ask if she could give me a small teddy? Would she?
It’s fair game to ask her for the small teddy bear, or for whatever you want, really. It’s also appropriate for your therapist to want to...
Are you filtering, in session? Possibly, certain topics, too shameful.. maybe, the belief, this subject, outside the realm of your therapist’s abilities.. is this omission holding you back?
Probably, to some extent. It’s not something I do consciously, but when I discover something that has been active unconsciously, I also d...
Has a therapist ever said or even intimated that they love you? What sorts of feelings did this provoke within you? How did it come about…the context…pray tell…
Yes. He told me straight out that he loved me.
Whether intentional or not, he set it up very well, but kind of following my lead.
One tim...
