Before covid began, I had been seeing my therapist in person weekly and we always got on well, I found him easy to talk to and understanding, however the past year and a half, sessions have primarily been over the phone and I have found it really difficult due to lack of privacy as I live somewhere with very thin walls and am at risk of neighbours hearing the conversation.
I was ok with phone therapy for a while, but now that both me and my therapist have been vaccinated, he still refuses to go back to an office and the brunt of our sessions have become primarily about him talking about covid all the time. Just last week I went on holiday for a few days somewhere quite local and he tried to fearmonger me about travelling on a bus.
I said I cannot live my life paranoid about covid, I'm careful and have also been vaccinated and I need to get back to some kind of normalcy.
Even when confiding in him about a family member who has been newly diagnosed with cancer, he has tried to argue that "cancer is not a threat in the same way covid is", which totally floored me.
I think this week I will need to tell him that I cannot carry on the sessions and listen to his fearmongering any longer but I absolutely dread confrontation, but my sessions with him just seem to be worsening my mental health each week