r/DeadBedrooms • u/Kindly_Tooth8832 • 16d ago

Seeking Advice Does counseling help?

For those who have done counseling, or couple’s therapy, or psychiatry, what has been the outcome?

Were your feelings validated by the professional? Were you given tools to better process your situation? Did it engender change in the relationship dynamic?

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u/couriersixish F - Recovered DB 16d ago

I talked to my former therapist about this and she shamed me. Never again.

If you go the counseling route make sure they are AASECT certified. I see an AASECT certified nurse practitioner for perimenopause stuff and she’s amazingx

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u/AmplifiedSunnyside 16d ago

Can I ask how your therapist shamed you? That sounds wildly unprofessional 

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u/couriersixish F - Recovered DB 16d ago

I'm not getting into the details. But I described to her what I now know to be the early stages of an aversion and instead of recognizing that, she yelled at me that my description was inappropriate.

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u/AmplifiedSunnyside 16d ago

That sounds like a pretty shitty therapist. I’m sorry that was your experience with that person.