Worried About Being Judged in Therapy? Here’s What Your Therapist Really Thinks About You

If you’ve ever left a therapy session replaying what you just said, you’re not alone. Doing this can have benefits and drawbacks. On the one hand, thinking about things from your therapist’s perspective can help you have insight into your own thoughts. On the other hand, you might find yourself leaving with a worry that your therapist is judging you as inept, unintelligent, or just plain whiny. The latter is a common fear, but a fear that is not usually helpful. After all, therapy often involves talking about things we don’t usually say out loud, so of course it’s going to feel a bit scary. In my ten years as a therapist in downtown Hamilton…