Managing countertransference as a therapist is SO important. The reality is that clients WILL bring content into therapy sessions that wakes up parts of us who have been through similar things. And there is a delicate balance in affirming the client’s experience because you genuinely GET IT and allowing them to have their own process that is untouched by your projected experience. Two people can experience the same thing and have vastly different subjective meaning making from it. And at the end