Therapeutic Relationship: Does My Therapist Actually Care?

About this episode

Does your therapist actually care about you, or are they just good at their job? Licensed therapist Kati Morton answers 10 of your most vulnerable questions about the therapeutic relationship. We cover why therapy feels one-sided, whether your therapist thinks about you between sessions, attachment and transference, lying to impress your therapist, ruptures and repair, why you can't be friends after therapy ends, graduating from weekly therapy, and how to ask "Do you care about me?" Thank you to our sponsor: Get 15% off the new OS-01 FACE Rich cream from OneSkin with code KATI at http://oneskin.co/KATI Chapters: 00:00 Intro: is the therapeutic relationship real? 00:51 Q1: Is my therapist's care real if I'm paying her? 05:39 Q2: Why does she know everything about me when I know nothing about her? 11:35 Why I say "patient" 13:19 Q3: Does my therapist think about me between sessions? 17:45 Q4: Why am I so attached to my therapist? (transference explained) 25:07 Q5: I lied to my therapist to impress her 29:36 Q6: My therapist said something that made me angry (ruptures and repair) 36:29 Q7: I think I love my therapist 42:18 Q8: Why can't we be friends after therapy ends?