I've had the same reaction before. Just when they think they've heard it all hunh. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

She was probably thinking man I didn't know my pastor was sending her a nut case. No wonder she is having a breakdown. LOL

your not a nut case. Counslors are sometimes hard to read. Is it possible your counselor was acknowledging the magnitude of your abuse and how much you have been thru?

Unless you know for sure this is not the counselor for, i would give it a little time to see were it goes.

so agree with justanothersurvivor. Therapists are human to. they take in a lot and then process the whole thing. And sometimes it's alot to process. Hang in there. Don't give up. UNLESS you really have that "feeling" like "Um, shrink, you just don't get it".

I am a counsellor in training, and I'm human. I am shockable and would hope that it was okay (even though not ideal)to be stunned by someones story. I wonder how you may have felt if you could see her response but she kept it hidden??? would you be able to trust any more of her responses? Sometimes empathy can hit us hard. I wonder how the WOW was said. Don't for one minute feel like I am defending or critiscising her actions. If you have feelings about it remember it is okay for you to ask her about it and tell her how it made you feel. Hope this helps
good luck and take care
Deb

I just began counseling 3mths ago and when I told the doc why I was there.... just matter of factly...how I was molested by many people, my mom tried to kill me and then to sell me for $500 for drugs, on and on... he cried... I asked why he was crying and he said that someone needed to. I am one of those kind of people that I want to know how to "fix" things and so I asked him how many visits I needed to deal with my sexual and stress issues etc. As he was wiping his eyes he said honey, any one of the things you have just told me could keep someone in therapy for years.. I said that I don't have years... I was thinking at most months...lol

I once told my psychiatrist that sometimes I think invisible people are around, and they don't like me. She looked at me like I was crazy.
...I realize it's a crazy thought, but... come on, she's a psychiatrist. Surely she's heard crazier things than that? I can't be the craziest person she's ever met.

I should add, she's been a psychiatrist for 20 years.

I agree that counsellors are human and sometimes just need a moment to take thing in. But lets also be honest there are a multitude of counsellors out the that are underqualified in certain areas. I totally know what you mean and have been there before.