I've learned to use my own feelings in a session as a kind of information, a signal about what's happening with the client. But doing that keeps holding a mirror up to me, and lately I can't look away from what it shows. I've spent years tending everyone else's wounds and quietly putting off my own.
More people experience this than they realize.
You can use your reactions as insight, but it's showing you how much of your own healing you've deferred.
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.