Sarah’s Testimony – New Haven RTC

Wow, I have so much.

My therapist, Alice, was super sensitive. I hurt her feelings a few times or she’d get sad by our conversations in therapy and she’d cry. Once she was offended because I told her I couldn’t continue discussing a triggering topic and I was crying and hyperventilating and she kept pushing me to have that conversation. So I got up and started walking towards her office door to leave, as she wouldn’t allow me to change the subject, and she moved her chair and sat down in front of the door to block my path.

I never had a panic attack that bad and I still get panic attacks involving memories of that day, or what my fear of entrapment originally stemmed for, which Alice magnified by trapping and me and constantly forcing me to talk to her about it. I was trapped in her office, panicking, crying, and on the borderline of fainting for almost 45 minutes until it was time for her to clock out so she just left.

Then she dropped me 2 phases for “not showing the ability to regulate emotions” and didn’t speak to me for 2 weeks.

More than that, she forced me to apologize to her in front of treatment team and lied to them and said I was physically pushing her aside- which never happens. After all was said and done, and she finally talked to me again, she started crying and said I hurt her feelings when I don’t trust her.

New Haven was an entire and complete nightmare, but this specific story and having Alice as a therapist is something I still have bad dreams about, 5 years later.