Liam

My ex and I tried couples’ therapy while we were engaged in 2015 because we were having difficulties with communication. It didn’t last long because we each had strange experiences with that therapist. My experience was that she, I’ll call her D, often forgot important details of my life and talked about her own trauma a lot. For example, after telling her a memory of my parents when I was a child, D told me that her dad made her watch while he drowned her cat’s kittens in their bath tub. Okay, D, that’s horrifying and awful. I forgot about my trauma again (is that how therapy works?). Needless to say, D wasn’t a good fit for either of us. I didn’t try therapy again until 2017 when I heard an ad on a podcast multiple times for Better Help. *Online therapists at your fingertips and you don’t have to drive to an office!* I’d been experiencing phases of bodily and mental shutdown after specific events took place (my whole life) and I wanted to get better at not resorting to locking myself...