The last two blogs I have written have not been about me.

Client Dumping by Therapists and Why You Can’t be Friends with Your Therapist – Ever! were written by me in response to the many emails and blog comments I have received from readers who have unresolved transference issues with their therapists. Especially for one person in particular – you know who you are.

My therapist reads all my blogs before I post them. She enjoys reading them but with the last two she was confused as she felt this was not the relationship we currently share. She picked it up and so did a lot of other astute readers – that these two posts were not of my usual style.

I want to thank all the people who emailed and posted comments on these last two blogs with much thought, wisdom and insight. These are people who seem to know me well and like what I normally write. I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for picking up on the fact that these last two were so incongruent. In answer to one question I was asked – No, I do not get paid for this nor do I receive any compensation for it. I do it because I am passionate about therapy – especially the transference/countertransference process. In answer to another question posed by the same person – I am not a therapist – yet!

I have had 14 years of therapy and am what is known as an informed, educated client. I am studying for a double major in Psychology and Counselling. I work as a medical typist (my day job) but my main vocation is writing, especially about families and psychological processes. I have had two books published by mainstream publishers ABC Books in Australia, The Bad Mother’s Revenge and Death by Teenager (see biography at bottom of blog). I write a regular column for My Child magazine called Reality Bites and am an occasional social commentator for ABC720 Perth radio.

I have an “adult” relationship with my therapist whom I do not see very often these days. But she is always with me in my heart wherever I go, especially when I feel the beauty of the landscape surrounding me and the warm sun shining down on me, my children and my dog at the beach. She has taught me that communication with others and connection with our spiritual selves and bathing in the healing wonder of nature is the best way to live an authentic, loving/kindness spiritual way of life.

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