Erotic transference doesn’t have to be the end of the world

I came in to my therapist’s office extremely uncomfortable last time, and my therapist could tell. He kept pushing me to open up. I sort of admitted erotic transference to my therapist (well not exactly….I mentioned I often felt hyper-sexual and that this carried into the therapeutic setting). He said, “Now we’re getting somewhere!” & my homework literally became “Be sexual.” He wanted me to stop feeling shame surrounding sex and view my sexual desires as wholly good. I thought for sure my mentioning of sexual desire within our therapy would close things off but it kind of did the opposite. I’m still not sure how I feel about it.

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