When we first started doing therapy she told me that there were many different kinds of therapy, and that from what she could see about me it was best for us to have a more informal approach, that from time to time she would tell me specific things about her to build my trust. I had a very traumatic experience with a therapist back in 2001, and she had to build my trust in the method from scratch, and seeing her as a person helped a lot. One of the first things she told me was that she lost her mother to cancer when she was a teen, and that helped a lot in seeing her as someone who knew what she was talking about. It's weird because rationally I know that doesn't have anything to do with her skills as a therapist, but on an emotional level it makes me feel in safe hands.

The good news is that the therapist who ruined me years ago was fired by my oncologist a couple of years later. So there's that. ^^

(I'm quite proud of that header, I think it's the best job I've done with the colours in all these years of photoshopping! ^^ )