Hello, welcome to the show.

This is Emotional Badass, where Moxie Meets Mindful.

I'm your host, Nikki Eisenhower, life coach and psychotherapist.

And on today's episode, we are exploring part two of nine irrational beliefs about trauma therapy and therapists.

Okay. and therapists. Welcome to this episode. Welcome to this episode. It is a part two. So I hope you have listened to part one before getting into this one. Thank you for being here.

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Light and love and onto the show. Number five, this is my fifth irrational belief about trauma

therapy or therapists. Because your therapist is a therapist, they know how to not have any problems.

This is a big, giant, fat, nope. Therapists are human. I promise you, you want them to be.

Anyone who thinks this of therapists, that therapists don't have problems or they've learned

enough to not have any problems, probably has a whole lot of issue with their own perfectionism,

is likely very critical of the self.

They're likely suffering from low self-esteem, which often puts other people on a pedestal,

particularly a therapist. If you wind up with an unhealthy narcissistic therapist, that is a very unfortunate dynamic.

Likely, this is indicative of someone who puts people on pedestals in their life.

If you are a humble therapist and you feel someone putting you on the pedestal,

you will likely help that person normalize that you do not need to be up on that

pedestal. This is why, for a very long time with clients, I have used language like we are co-collaborators

in this process. I am the expert in the human condition. You are the expert in you in your life,

and we come together and we collaborate because I won't

participate in allowing my clients from their own low self-esteem place to put me on a pedestal

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