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The therapist-in-therapy phenomenon — one of psychology’s open secrets, though “secret” might be overstating it. The simplest answer is that therapists are human beings, not omniscient wisdom machines in cardigans. They get caught in the same messy whirlpools of anxiety, heartbreak, family drama, existential dread, and late-night doomscrolling as the rest of us. But there are deeper, more systemic reasons they often need therapy themselves: like a mirror gazing into another mirror, reflecting infinity. The healer who heals must themselves be in a perpetual state of healing. It is not a flaw; it is the nature of the work.
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