Dear Midnight:

You wrote: “he usually doesn’t answer direct or general questions so much such as ‘why is this happening’, because I think he doesn’t want to label me or my experiences or impose one interpretation on me.”

I am not happy to write the following: I think you may very well have an incompetent therapist. Two years is way too long to direct the attention away from this crucial information that here, in less than two days you described clearly.

How can he not be aware that childhood experiences with an older sibling are often enough very powerful? This is far from being unheard of. He should have come across this common theme in his education, if not in his experience.

Perhaps his motivation in being indirect and vague is monetary. The fact that he has a professional certificate does not exclude such possible (and not unheard of) motivation.

anita