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I don't want to think of him as a monster,

because then that's going to make it really difficult for me to convey any, like,

information about him to my daughter, and I want her to learn on her own about him.

Music I want her to learn on her own about him. I'm Hillary McBride.

I'm a clinical counselor, and this is other people's problems,

a show about real-life therapy sessions between me and my clients.

We're opening the door to sessions that are normally totally confidential to show you what it looks

like when brave people decide to get help. Everything you're about to hear is from one session,

lightly edited. I'll help guide you through it.

Thank you. I'll help guide you through it. Ellie is a really, really interesting woman, incredibly intelligent and warm, and it seems important

for her that she treats the people in her life well.

There was a fracture in her family growing up.

Her mom and her dad separated and the stories that her mom told her about her dad left her with a

sour taste in her mouth. And then what happened is Ellie's dad died and she never got a chance to

actually confirm. Was he the monster that her mom made him out to be? Or was he just a regular

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