Posted by Dinah on April 26, 2008, at 18:55:32
In reply to Re: Is there anything you don't say to your therap » Dinah, posted by rskontos on April 26, 2008, at 16:31:03
Don't beat yourself up about it. I didn't trust my therapist for five years. You've barely seen him at all. I'm not a person who finds it easy to trust. I was still honest with him. But I wasn't necessarily completely honest with him.
On the other hand, there was something about him from the beginning that was compelling to me. That made me want to keep trying to trust him. There was something safe and calm that made him feel like a sanctuary long before I ever felt it was safe to trust in that sanctuary. I do think there needs to be something there to keep therapy going. Some sort of elemental quality that draws a client to a therapist long before the structure of trust is built.
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