I agree with JM, there is NO subject your therapist should shy away from; the whole point of therapy is to be able to express all of your feelings and have them accepted which is so different than what happened to most of us growing up.

I do fear that there are a lot more therapists who can't handle transference than should possibly be practicing. I've heard some real horror stories from other people in therapy. And I know my T has commented a number of times about how bad it is when a T can't carry through and once again the client is left hanging. When I talked to him about googling him he actually told me about a T that told his client he had to end therapy with her because he was moving away even though he wasn't. I'm very grateful that my T can handle this as well as he does.

I think both of you (Sprinting Gal and Charlotte) need to talk directly to your therapists about how you feel about there being taboo subjects in therapy. If there's a subject they feel uncomfortable hearing about from you, that's THEIR problem and responsibility, not YOURS. Yes, clear boundaries are necessary, but so is being emotionally available to you. Moving away from you in session from where he used to sit is conveying the opposite message.

AG