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A therapist will hold up a mirror to patients, but patients will also hold up a mirror to their therapists. Therapy is far from one-sided; it happens in a parallel process. Every day, our patients are opening up questions that we have to think about for ourselves. If they can see themselves more clearly through our reflections, we can see ourselves through theirs. This happens to therapists when we're providing therapy, and it happens to our own therapists too. We are mirrors reflecting mirrors reflecting mirrors reflecting mirrors, showing one another what we can't yet see.

Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone - A Therapist, Her Therapist and Our Lives Revealed, 2019.

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