“Help! My therapist looks like my late aunt. Do I tell her?”

Your Therapist Friend
5 min readJul 8, 2021

Each week, Your Therapist Friend answers the internet’s questions about mental health, relationships and how to be in therapy. Today, we’re tackling transference.

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From a r/therapy post:
“I’m seeing a new therapist who is incredible — but she looks nearly exactly like my aunt who was murdered.”

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Your Therapist Friend

Kayla Lane Freeman — Licensed therapist answering the internet’s questions about mental health, relationships and how to be in therapy