Genuine caring.
Ability to tolerate difficult and intense feelings.
Able to help you contain the intense feelings.
Direct, firm, clear.
Good boundaries, but also warmth and holding.
Respect.
Genuineness.
Remembers the key parts of your life and situation and story.
Sees you, not a diagnosis.
Helps you find your own path to healing.
Is open to other forms of communication, like art and writing.
Allows your feelings to emerge at your own pace.
Helps you to understand yourself and others, and the dynamics of your thinking and feeling, and supports you in ways to change this if need be.
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