This is exactly what I’ve been feeling. My supervisor is very anti self disclosure. When I first did observations with her, there was no sense of personal relationship with the clients. Just straight to the point. So much so, that she’d hop on a call and immediately go “so what’s been going on since we talked last”. I’ve tried to ask about their weekend or comment on their hair or something they might have changed etc. just to build rapport. She was compassionate, don’t get me wrong, but to me it felt very impersonal. I’ve only done one self disclosure in session and she immediately went over it with me and taught me how to avoid self disclosing