Transference with an older therapist of the opposite sex.
I had the chance to work with an extremely warm (ridiculously warm) eclectic female therapist well over double my age at the time starting when she was interning taking over a therapist I had before in an outpatient unit/special ed school in my adolescence years. I was 17 at the time working with her.
It was with her, I started to feel more comfortable with myself, to socialize more in therapy (a first), to socialize more with my peers, and also to start working on myself as a person.
After graduating from that place, I came to her private practice seeing her twice a week. Even though a lot of times I wasn't working on myself, I strongly felt just being in therapy for me specifically would aid my growth in a way of having that support system I lacked especially transitionally out of that outpatient to adulthood. It felt she was the sole supporter of my life at those times.
During this whole process, I grew a desire of strongly wanted her in my life. I felt different though similar archetypes towards her, as a friend, as a mother, and as a significant other and those other feelings that accompany that last archetype. You know? Seriously, I'm not crazy for I know what I felt.
It felt very painful when she decided to quit her private practice and pursue another career occupation given life circumstances (son moved on to college). She recommended me to a male therapist knowing she knew I had transference towards her and that this guy will have my own new learnings from.
Anyway, I strongly miss her still and those archetype feelings still remain in me believe me or not.
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Don't you just love it? :mushy
I had the chance to work with an extremely warm (ridiculously warm) eclectic female therapist well over double my age at the time starting when she was interning taking over a therapist I had before in an outpatient unit/special ed school in my adolescence years. I was 17 at the time working with her.
It was with her, I started to feel more comfortable with myself, to socialize more in therapy (a first), to socialize more with my peers, and also to start working on myself as a person.
After graduating from that place, I came to her private practice seeing her twice a week. Even though a lot of times I wasn't working on myself, I strongly felt just being in therapy for me specifically would aid my growth in a way of having that support system I lacked especially transitionally out of that outpatient to adulthood. It felt she was the sole supporter of my life at those times.
During this whole process, I grew a desire of strongly wanted her in my life. I felt different though similar archetypes towards her, as a friend, as a mother, and as a significant other and those other feelings that accompany that last archetype. You know? Seriously, I'm not crazy for I know what I felt.
It felt very painful when she decided to quit her private practice and pursue another career occupation given life circumstances (son moved on to college). She recommended me to a male therapist knowing she knew I had transference towards her and that this guy will have my own new learnings from.
Anyway, I strongly miss her still and those archetype feelings still remain in me believe me or not.
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Don't you just love it? :mushy