I remember when I went to a mental health clinic for some counselling a few years ago, I was talking to the counsellor a lot about my social anxiety and he forced me to join this art club even though I told him that I don’t want to but then he persisted and asked me if there was a reason why I refused to wanting to join.
Then that day, I ended up coming to the ”art club” and he was there too and we were having a conversation with each other and I knew that I wasn’t gonna get anything out from it so I left there early just way after he left. I’m so glad I’m not a client under that service anymore.
The following year I got assigned to a clinician the following year at the same service who apparently isn’t a good clinician in my opinion because the way she responded to my concerns during my first session with her - she just basically invalidated my feelings and since that happened I knew I wasn’t gonna benefit from that either. I rang up the service the following week for them to cancel my sessions with her, and it was such a relief!