A therapist is there to ask you questions about your own beliefs, not to explain theirs.

I thought religion was supposed to be left out of therapy? I'd get a new therapist.

You going to spend your therapy session arguing with your therapist about why you think it's bad for her to believe in a god? Are you distracting yourself from what brought you to therapy in the first place?

I think you should be charging her not the other way around.

I think you're getting more outta the responses to your post than your therapy session AND it costs way less.

Wait, are you paying for this shit?!

It sounds like the therapist needs conversion therapy.

It seems to me that you could become her therapist, charge her $100 per session, and make some extra money!

It's a shame that you can't find a therapist in your area who is expert in all faiths, including humanism or atheism. Is it possible you could find a tele-health session with someone more suitable to your sense of beliefs?

If not, can you explain to your current therapist, that you shouldn't have to waste your time with her defending your beliefs or proving that you've done your reserarch and like many educated people, you are seeking more refined help than a religious approach.

Can you explain that you are seeking her help for ways you can help yourself understand and cope with problems on your own, not by reliance on a mythical creature. She should know that what works for her might not work for you, so she should be able to meet you half way.

Can she nurture your feeling that strength comes from within, and you are seeking ways to make that happen? Can she validate your feelings, and help you to create a more balanced and harmonious vibe in your head regarding your troubles?

Charge her with figuring out a way she can help you in a secular manner, without invoking gods or supernatural interference as a way to blame or credit your failures and triumphs.

True help for coping with the trials of life would work for anyone whether they are a person of faith in the supernatural, or a person of faith in their own abilities to overcome the challenges, with proper guidance.

It's her job to help you see that proper guidance and not to pass the buck to a fictional character. She should be able to set aside her beliefs to meet you where you are, believing in reality and seeking natural person-owned solutions.

How much does your therapist pay you for the counselling she is receiving?

So your therapist is opening up to you, is she? Who's the real therapist in this scenario?

Drop her like it's hot.

So cats went from being gods to being pets, and rocks went from being pets to being gods. This world is some messed up stuff.

I think therapists are suppose to challenge delusions. Get a new one, you're wasting your money.

Time fo a new therapist.

That was very unprofessional and unethical.

That it helps her doesn't mean it's true, and as a scientist she should have a greater appreciation for truth.

I'm sure it will help you cope to have that discussion and explain an alternate view to her. Then it's time to go, as she has violated a standard of therapeutic support.

How much do you charge this therapist for an hour?

Rocky Saves

But you pay her ?

I find that using this venue to proselytize is unethical. Counselors meet people at their most vulnerable and should realize what a responsibility that is. I'm glad you're stronger than this.

Get a new therapist. I don't need some quack proselytizing to me when I know full well there is no God. Unless I had to go for some court ordered bullshit, I'd walk the fuck out and refuse to pay.

Sounds like you reversed the roles and became the therapist to a confused believer.

Get a new therapist.

Wow. Who is counseling who?