How can I make my therapy more comfortable?

Some strategies that may help include:

1. Help the client feel more welcome.
2. Know that relationships take time.
3. Never judge the client.
4. Manage your own emotions.
5. Talk about what the client wants from therapy.
6. Ask more or different questions.
7. Don’t make the client feel rejected.
8. Refer to another therapist.

Are you dependent on your therapist?

1) If you’re in counseling, or thinking about counseling, you probably want some amount of guidance or support from your therapist. Hence, it’s true that you might rely somewhat on your therapist and coach. This is not necessarily bad—and reliance isn’t dependence.

Do you feel closeted with your therapist?

Patients feel very sensitive and often terribly ashamed about experiencing a strong yearning for some form of closeness with their therapist. Is that you? I didn’t realize how important this topic was until I wrote the first of a series of posts on the topic at How Therapy Works.

What was the worst part of therapy for You?

The worst part of therapy was when the therapist was trying to be empathetic at me. I finally got the therapist to stop it, mostly because I told them to stop talking, but when they did it – it was not useful at all. Thank you, Renee, no one could have said it better or more succinctly.

Why is it so hard to end a relationship with a therapist?

It is difficult enough when ending with a therapist when the ending is planned for and positive. It is truly crushing when you end up feeling like you do…It has got to hard to trust again after having made good progress learning to trust, and then feel like everything good has been ripped away..

Should you tell your therapist how you feel in therapy?

If your therapist is competent to work with strong feelings in the therapy, then learning about your feelings will help him or her to help you let go of what you must and seek out what you really need.