So today my therapist started crying. It didn't last long but I don't know what to think. She said that how I feel about myself (I told her that I disgust myself) makes her feel sad for me. I like her as my therapist. I just feel strange that someone who doesn't know me on a personal level was crying because of me. Thoughts?
Therapists have a lot of empathy and sometimes pressures and stresses in their own lives can lead to becoming overly emotional during a session (after all, they are human), but I think it is unprofessional. Hopefully it was a one-time thing, but it sounds like she was just really emotional that day and wasn't able to stay as distanced from your pain as she probably would have normally been.
That's odd, and I agree that it does seem unprofessional, but therapists are people too like Spacesuit said.
