therapist crying in therapy?

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I am a truma survivor. Complex PTSD. I have weekly therapy to address issues. I've seen her for almost 2 years. When I talk to my therapist about traumatic events she sometimes has tears whell up in her eyes. My last session she had tears on her cheeks and wiped them....but remained focused on me. Is there anything wrong with a therapist to feel compassion and cry? It did not make me uncomfortable. I felt that she connected to what I was saying by her empathic tears? But is there anything wrong with this?

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If she was able to cry, yet still remain professional and therapeutic, I think its okay. If you have a truly tragic case of trauma, I would be concerned about the therapist who is unaffected. There are some horrifying, startling, and gut-wrenching cases of trauma out there and I have tried hard to hold back the tears during a meeting.
Its part of being human.

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Not only nothing wrong, you are very fortunate to have someone empathize rather than analyze.

I don't think there is anything wrong.
She is human and as a human we have the ability to care and be sympathetic and empathetic.Also she has a 2 year professional relationship with you so she really knows who you are and it might up set her to think that what you are telling really happened and it hurts her.

I don't want to criticize this very human condition of emotion that your therapist has felt for your situation - whatever that may be. But I would seriously be careful, because emotion is the perpetual clouder of good reason. Maybe she can remain rational and emotional at the same time, but I personally think the odds are against it. I like a stoic therapist who shows no emotion.

There is nothing wrong with them. They are sharing what pain you have -even though they aren't supposed to do that much!

I also have Complex PTSD. If it doesn't make you uncomfortable, then I don't think anything is wrong with it. I have had two therapists cry during a session and I was VERY uncomfortable. I haven't even cried about it yet and to see people get so angry and emotional about it, makes me feel weird. I hope some day I will be able to feel emotions "normally" again.

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