I was going through a tough patch at the start of last year because of a perfect storm of bad sleep deprivation, money worries, grieving for my mum, feeling that the religion I had been a part of for years was actually just a money obsessed cult blah blah. My GP referred me for 6 NHS counselling sessions.
Fast forward nearly a year and I am in a much better place and I've resolved most of the things that were contributing to my unhappiness.
I thought that I might as well go along to the sessions because they might help.
The counsellor spoke in a very slow voice (the kind I came across a lot in the religion I was involved in because everyone meditated and wanted to show an outward appearance of being calm and peaceful)
Then, I noticed loads of crystals on her desk. I am very averse to crystals because I had an awful experience working as a nanny for a family who owned a crystal therapies business and they were always waving them around me and being generally weird and over my boundaries.
She also said she works on energies and asked how I felt about that. I told her that I don't like the vagueness of the word energy because in hippy circles Ive seen this claimed initiation being used for bad purposes (e.g. people accusing others of having bad/ negative energy) to establish themselves as superior to others. I said it's not scientific enough and that how I interpret her picking up on my "energy" is just her reading my body language and hearing what Im saying and referring to her previous experiences which in turn gives her a feeling.
ANYWAY. I think after everything, I think she and I aren't going to be a good fit.
At one point i was telling her about something traumatic that had happened to me and I was distracted by the fact that she held her hands together in a praying position and brought them to her chest, then she said she had goose bumps.
I'm just disappointed that I've waited on a waiting list for counselling and now after nearly a year, I have this woman who seemed perfectly nice but err not for me.