Wow! He didn’t even know you and made a snap judgement! I would have felt offended but that’s just me. Do you know what sign the therapist is?

Dawn, I don’t know his sign but I did confront him.

I’m impressed that you would give a personal example like this, but you need to say more. On the face of it, the therapist’s saying you were wrong was flat-out inappropriate, no matter which side you are on. Maybe your son is too young to understand that legitimate values do come into conflict, but the therapist should be able to appreciate that — and you and his father as well.

classic!

The therapist overall was very, very good. When I confronted him he instantly got it – this really stunned all 3 of us when it happened which is sort of the point. But he was no hack, that’s for sure. He was extremely competent and effective but once this happened it did degrade the therapy… I mean the therapist was polarized against my son’t mother and my son, like I said is very loyal so he didn’t like or trust him so much after that.

I had a similar thing when I went to couples therapy once. I told my story, he told his and the therapist turned around and started berating the man. I was stunned and so was the man. We left the session (our first) and outside I told him I thought it was jacked and we never went back.

Back to my son’s therapist, we showed up in his office with some very heavy duty issues and strong personalities and frankly I don’t think someone with less experience could have helped us at all, They’d have just been in over their head. This guy tapped his whole 30 years, I’m telling you and for this I am very grateful. Both my son and I were satisfied is what I am saying. We know people are human.

Well the other thing I wanted to highlight here is how polarized the COLLECTIVE was (is). Not only did he pick a side, he insinuated to my son that I was stupid at least in this instance, and any sane person could see that…

Further, he revealed himself in that he was shocked at who was on what side which showed me he’d been dealing with his projection of me all along.

At this point in the therapy to continue would have been more a service to him then to us. My son runs pretty deep, he’s got some very keen instincts and told me within a week or so, he thought he’d gotten what he wanted from the therapy and in fact he had.

The guy really did us a lot of good. Sometimes you just have to know when to quit and both my son had the same read on the situation.

For the record, I’d go back the guy as would my son. His experience was / is supreme. It is not that easy to find 30 years experience and he was very clear-headed…. and then he lost his mind and we were all sort of surprised and sympathetic.

Thank you, eva.

Off topic here, but what else is new. Just wanted to say that I enjoyed the reference to the saturn uranus opposition of yor. Really put things in perspective. Am not saying this for political reasons, but the prez’s statement about coming too far to go back now really frames my saturn uranus opposition experience in retrospect.

Side note: I found it amusing that the first computer I signed onto, at this place I’m at, did not let me access this site because it doesn’t allow access to the “occult or paranormal”. What the hell does that mean anyway?