There is a particular kind of discomfort that arises when a client's story begins to feel familiar — not familiar in the clinical sense, but familiar in a way that reaches past the case notes and into something personal. A pattern that echoes your own family. A dynamic that mirrors a relationship you have not fully resolved. A reaction in session that feels disproportionate to what is actually happening in the room. This is not a failure of professionalism. It is countertrans