I don’t think that at all times all therapists keep themselves from showing their emotions.

 I don’t think that at all times all therapists keep themselves from showing their emotions. We are trained to be objective in the sense that we must be able to perform our jobs and that means focusing on our therapeutic goals not using our time to process our own emotions. I can tell you that when working in hospitals, I worked with families during emergency room cases when I knew the deceased. I also worked with a young boy and his family as he fought cancer. I was with him and his family when he died and we shared the tissue. In your therapist’s case, it sounds like the loss of her dog was mentioned most likely because there was an emotion that might have made you think that you had done something to bother the therapist. As therapists, we also can express emotion as a way to help the client learn a way to deal with emotion. For example, stating something like, “I’m sorry if I am not myself today, but I just had to have my dog put down and I am feeling sad.” If that sadness is incapacitating for the therapist, like crying through your session, then the therapist would better serve you by rescheduling your appointment. It is also important to remember that we all grieve differently. Perhaps her dog had been suffering and she was not in active grief which would have allowed her to work without being distracted by her own grief. And that is the point of learning how to deal with our own emotions to the degree that those emotions don’t conflict with our ability to perform our job. We process our emotions outside of the therapy environment and have other professionals that we can talk with. To be a good therapist is to know when we are incapacitated by our emotions or therapeutic prejudices.

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