"Too intelligent for counselling"

[CharlotteBog]

I was talking to a friend today who has concerns about her young adult daughter. She knows I have had my own problems, but not to what degree.

At one point she said her daughter was too intelligent for therapy.
I take umbrage at this. I had a lot of support from an ED MN nurse and a consultant psychologist. They got to know me, learnt what my level of education was and my current profession.
I believe EDs are more common in high achieving, perfectionists ie. I'm pretty sure ED teams are used to working with intelligent people.

My inclination is to talk to her about it - give her my POV so that she can see that it might be useful for her daughter, but it would be quite an effort to explain it all and my impression I got is that the daughter is doing OK at the moment but resistant to support i.e. me talking to her won't make a difference.

So, I'm writing it here to get it off my chest.

Has anyone said it ever remotely alluded to… thinking otherwise?!! 😆

I really don’t think you needed to clarify this

i think we’re all aware that we’re different

That's a ridiculous thing for your friend to say!! I don't see how you can be too intelligent for counselling. It makes no sense.

Exactly. That doesn't sound like intelligent behaviour to me.

Yep

all it means is that you either don’t gel with this therapist OR you don’t want to engage with therapy so wrap up questions quickly