So Rebecca, I got a bunch of emails from patrons that we can read on the air and answer, what do you say?

I'm all in.

Anonymous patron says, I just recently started seeing a therapist for the first time in my life.

I've only had two sessions and I'm finding it very difficult to decide if this therapist isn't

right for me or if she's just telling me things I don't want to hear. I went to her because I've

hit rock bottom with anxiety and depression and I want to learn coping mechanisms.

But my second session when I was explaining how hurt I felt when my family doesn't actively

want to do things with me, she pretty much told me that maybe I'm just not a pleasure to be around.

I left extremely upset and cried all evening because I hate most everything about myself.

I don't want to go back to her because I felt the session was more hurtful than helpful,

but how do I make the determination between that or maybe she is right and I just don't want to see

myself in that way? Rebecca, what do you think? Well, it sounds like you need a therapist with a more

humanistic lens and less confrontational. I would want to hear from that therapist. First off,

I'd want to check in with them and say as a client and say it sounded like what you were saying was

that I'm fowl to be around and that's why I don't have any friends. Is that right?

Because I've often had people come back to me and say, here's what you said to me and I'm like,

like let's spend a little bit more time exploring that. Right, because what the anonymous

patron is saying is the therapist saying, well maybe your family doesn't want to do things with you

because you're just not a pleasure to be around. Or the therapist said something else that

was intended to mean something else, but just came across that way, that kind of thing.

Because it'd be weird for a therapist to just think that and say it, wouldn't you say it when you

think? Yeah, I only when I have a very long history with a client will I call people out on the

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