Bucky’s therapy session - full clip from the Falcon and the Winter Soilder (2021) This clip belongs to Marvel/Disney. I do not own the clip in this video. This is my favorite clip so far so I thought I would share :)) Enjoy!
Therapist: James you need to open up to me Bucky: nah you just laughed at me last time I opened up Therapist: for the goodness sake, there's no such thing as a talking raccoon who's out to get your arm
My headcanon is that Bucky didn't want to go to Tony's funeral because he felt that that he wasn't welcomed since he murdered the Starks and never got to make amends with Tony. Which explains why you see Sam comforting him at the funeral. Had Tony survived, his name would have been on Bucky's list.
In 'Endgame', Russos planned to have a scene where Bucky saves Pepper during the final battle. This kind of ended tensions between him and Tony. They opted not to. If I get to meet either of the Russos, I'll confront them.
Yet they had Sam act unaware to what Bucky went through for half the show. I understand that they had to build the friendship so it looks like a greater change going from enemies to pals but cmon this was literally Sam’s job and we saw he was great at it in the movie. We also saw that they didn’t forget as they tried to reason with Karli using his background. I get Sam hates Bucky in the beginning and he has valid reasons but I believe they messed up the way Sam handled the situation in the beginning.
Also consider that the military never really looked into wartime trauma seriously until after WWII ended. Men were expected to just deal with it in silence. Bucky being taken as a POW before the end of the War meant he would have never gotten any of that help and would still have been raised with that mentality. The man needs a rest and the happiest ending possible after this.
@@GOldenPROdigy115 not u hating when u searched for this video- I wasn’t saying he was a bad actor, in fact this scene is one of the best scenes within the series lol
@@evey3335 You girls keep giving him attention he doesn't deserve. He's also a big introvert. I go out. I go to parties. I'm a funny guy. Where's my attention?
Dude needs a trauma specialist, not someone who’s constantly breaching his trust with gotcha questions. I’ve had shitty therapists, but her looking through his phone just floored me. She should know his history with autonomy and be working on building boundaries with him, and maybe recognize he doesn’t like the note-taking and scrutiny because he’s been fucking EXPERIMENTED ON. Smh
Dude went to WW2, was frozen in time, got brainwashed to kill people for the next 20 years, got amnesia, hunted by the govt, brainwashed again, snapped out of it, had to fight a buncha superheroes, cryogenically froze himself again, FINALLY got some peace for like 2 months, had to fight AGAIN, snapped away, snapped back, had to fight Thanos, and now hes roped into fighting again all while suffering from PTSD. His therapist is garbage at her job. Dude just needs a fucking break tending to goats or fishing or something.
She's a military therapist and was a military officer herself in combat. She's more than qualified to be doing what she's doing. He needs someone that is straight forward like that. There would be no results with a regular therapist straight out of academics with no lived experience. There's nothing better than someone who understands what you've been through, she knows what she's been through because she's been in combat herself. You're supposed to be completely open with your therapist, the phone thing is still within confidentiality if the information stays in the room. If you're not completely open with your therapist, therapy will never work. I think what she's trying to do is make connection with Bucky, he's completely guarded and close-off, and he's lying to her. If you're not going to be honest with communicating with your therapist there's no point, so she's trying to get him to open up. She's made a lot of progress when she had Bucky hand her his phone. It creates that connection, opens him up a little more, she talks about Sam and how he's ignoring her, and about the importance of friendship and not being alone. Whereas before then, Bucky was lying, not being honest, being closed off, which gets you nowhere. She can't help him if he doesn't open up.
Yeah I didn’t like this therapist much. Like you said he needs a TRAUMA specialist because he’s been through TRAUMA. I’m guessing she knew about what he’s been through (I mean she should) and she did a pretty shitty job tbh
@@Nevermore093 I get that she can relate to him as someone in the military and that he needs to open up and not lie. But is she specifically trained to treat trauma? It doesn't appear to be her area of expertise. I've seen therapists, and the ones who are worth it take things at a pace you're comfortable with and respect your boundaries. If they notice you're not ready for something, they'll move on and come back later. They attempt to gain your trust. People are more likely to respond to therapists who are compassionate instead of aggressive.
I get that they needed to have a therapist that is straight forward, can see through a patient, lying or being able to put on a good face, acting like they are fine when deep down they are not truly fine. I’m glad Bucky has a therapist like that. However I didn’t like how she called out everything he has endured, how alone he is, all of it basically shoved in his face. That’s not a way to process everything he has endured. That can cause people to shut down. Just like a teacher shoving too much information at once onto a young student and expecting them to get it right within a few minutes then ace the test with flying colors. Go easy when it comes down to personal things in Bucky’s life please. Bucky’s smile is priceless. Love it. Thanks for uploading.
I don’t know therapy, but who knows. Bucky may need this. He has a lot of people (several of the heroes he fought with) to turn to but he won’t turn to them. He might need it too because that’s how he and Steve communicate and that’s what they respond to, brutal honesty and ribbing.
Sakonan who do you want him to open up to?? Yes he fought with multiple heroes but who does he actually trust? He has no one to turn to except Sam, he didn’t need his loneliness thrown in his face, she just needed to do her damn job properly but that’s bad writing for you
Completely agree! At the beginning of the scene i liked her personality, because she matched bucky’s grumpiness 100% and they seemed to share similar personality traits. But the looking through his phone and telling him he’s alone seemed super unprofessional and possibly harmful. She could have pushed him to find the answer for himself without making him feel awful. I really don’t know why they wrote her like that :/
Therapist: "You need to open up to me." Also, Therapist: *Mocks him about the fact she is the only person he's called in a week, demands he hands over his phone so she can violate his privacy, throws the fact he has no family or friends and is alone in his face, basically tells him to get over his trauma and stop being sad because his life better now, and she uses his notebook trigger to manipulate him into talking* Yeah, can't imagine why he doesn't trust you.
Also: Asks him what he wants and when he actually gives an honest answer dismisses it as "bullshit" and tells him to do something based on *her* experiences instead of like, finding a way to work with him on the basis of his own experiences and needs. Also, I'm pretty sure she was using the threat of reporting him to the authorites and sending him to prison to manipulate him into talking too. Like she implied telling her about his dreams was a condition of his pardon: pretty sure it was just attending therapy and not re-offending. He's not gonna do that anyway.
its kinda great writing tho. from the way bucky complain, the therapist must have done this a dozen time trying to opened bucky up, but bucky just keep refusing. even tho he complain, hes also not 100% honest on answering the therapist (i mean hijacking a car gotta be ilegal somewhere). we see from bucky perspective that this therapy is not that effective for him, but we also see that bucky is not opening up to anyone on half of the show.
@@Kostte-zp6he If her way of getting him to open up involves gaslighting him, trying to trigger his trauma, violating his right to privacy,, and then mocking him for the fact he's alone its understandable he doesn't want to open up. *NOBODY* would want to open up to somebody who did that to them. This isn't hard to understand. Humans do not open up to people who they know are going to hurt them, upset them or use what they disclose against them. A proper therapist would not have to resort to such tactics. Just listening without judgement is enough to make most people open up. Which is a large part of why RL therapists are required to be objective and neutral. She is none of that. The one time he does answer her honestly, telling her he wants peace she yells that its "bullshit". She gaslights him and then tries to use her own experiences as a basis for telling him what to do instead of taking account of his experiences. Yeah, Bucky doesn't open up to anyone else because guess what? They're *worse* The blatantly mock him, call him an evil monster and a pyschopath, tell him he can't change or in Zemo's case want to kill him. Would *YOU* open up to a person who was trying to manipulate or exploit you and very likely wanted to kill you? Of course he doesn't open up. There is nobody he can safely do so to. Its not good writing: it is the opposite. It is writers who singularly fail to understand why mentally ill people and trauma victims will not open up to or trust people who treat them like shit or make their trauma symptoms worse. Its like expecting your kid to love you and trust you when you beat them. Not gonna happen. As far as illegal behaviour goes: yeah hijacking a car is illegal, but Sam displays far worse behaviour early on. I mean he pretty much straight up gives sensitive information to a terrorist group. Which is basically treason- and he gets away with it. Also, that Senator was engaging in illegal behaviour herself. That dude who was in her car was hitman and she was telling him to assasinate another one of her political opponents. The reason Bucky knocked him out was because he was pointing a gun at Bucky. So in that regard, he kind of had a right to defend himself.
@@englishlady9797 i am not saying she is the best therapist out there. all i am saying that bucky does not even try to opened up himself either. you could be right that all the therapist doing is just harassing bucky. but again, we dont see all the session they have been through. and with the way that bucky not even answering honestly from the very first question, also the fact that he immediately complain when she start writing a note, yeah we all could agree that bucky was never trying to open himself up in the first place. therapy is not some place you go to then your problem suddenly solve itself.
@@Kostte-zp6he I still don't think you're getting it. Its likely that these are the tactics the therapist normally uses or employs. If he's not opening up from the start, there's bound to be a reason for it. There almost always is. Its possible that last time he told her about his dreams she mocked him or gaslit him or otherwise did something that caused him to lose trust in her. Bucky has PTSD. PTSD cannot be "solved" and does not "go away by itself". That's not how mental health conditions work. The writing in the notebook *might* have something to do with the fact that HYDRA used a notebook to control him and she is deliberately trying to trigger is trauma to get a reaction. That is *not* how you deal with people who have trauma, at least not until a lot later down the line: and even then you are supposed to let them know. The therapists solution to Bucky's PTSD related nightmares of "make amends" or some such nonsense is a really bad away of dealing with PTSD because it is not dealing with the traumatic events and victimization which caused it. It is effecively blaming Bucky for what happened to him and telling him its his responsibility to put it right. Just take an example: some people can develop PTSD due to having been victims of violence or abuse. (Bucky had both..) Imagine if a therapist told them they had to make up to the person who abused them or make amends to the other people who their abuser mistreated as though they were responsible for everything the abuser did. What impact do you suppose it is going to have on that person? I'll tell you- it will make thier problems *worse* and increase the level of stress, shame and helplessness they are already feeling. Yeah: Bucky doensn't open up to anyone. With good reason. How do you suppose Zemo or Sharon would have reacted if he broke down in tears in front of them and told them he was still having flashbacks of what HYDRA did to him and still felt guilt over every kill (even though he was *not* in control of his actions)? They would at best laugh at him and make fun of him. At worst, they would tell him the guilt and pain he felt was not genuine, and that he should probably just kill himself. Again: would *you* open up to someone in those circumstances?
“I am no longer The Winter Soldier. I am James Bucky Barnes and you are part of my efforts to make amends.”😁 Priceless. Bucky has become my favorite character hands down because he has had a tough path & amazing back story. We were introduced to Bucky in bits & slowly learned his trajectory & path. He’s relatable because he is flawed He represents the human condition The Winter Soldier & Civil War are two of the best MCU movies IMHO The Falcon & the Winter Soldier was awesome because it got to really explore Bucky, Sam & even Zemo at a depth not possible in the movies. We learned their emotions, fears, regrets & hopes. They are truly dynamic characters. Sebastian Stan, Daniel Bruhl & Antthony Mackie all did incredible work. Their acting was superb but not only the drama but their moments of levity were great. The Falcon & the Winter Soldier turned out to be even better than I imagined.
As much as I hate Zemo, at least they wrote him in a complex way. He will be back in Thunderbolts with Bucky and Yelena so we'll see what happens there.
"You don't have 10 phone numbers in this thing, you've been ignoring Sam. Gotta nurture friendships, I'm the only person you've called this week. That's so sad and you're alone" Damn that hits so DAMN hard
Bucky: Ma'am I was literally born in 1917. The concept of texting, let alone a mobile phone is still insane to me. But sure, continue to lecture me on not using my phone when I'm working through trauma and trying to get caught up on like 70+ years of technology.
I doubt she's been specifically trained to treat trauma. He needs to open up and not lie, but she can call him out on that in a respectful way. I've seen therapists and the ones who are worth it respect your boundaries and will go at a pace that you're comfortable with. If they see you're not ready for something, they'll stop and come back later. Compassion goes a long way in building trust with a client instead of making them feel attacked.
@@alexandredelbois4157 EXACTLY. She was appointed to ensure he doesn't break the rules of his pardon. She isn't there to address every single trauma he has been through in his life.
@@12classics39 The therapist makes fun of Bucky, so he doesn't trust her. Sam, who also has PTSD, is tries to help Bucky through it because he understands some of what it is like. Bucky trusts him. Sam for him is a safe person to talk to.
Honestly, i just learned the meaning of cinematography of bucky barnes at this time. 00:01 its close up shot to bucky at the medium top head. That means he has nightmare from the past that tored him down. He wants to move on from who he was, but he couldn't. In that case he so on depressed. That's why this angle shot are top on him, because he's in low character. And the same shot to the therapist, that means she's the one who want bring him back about his past and talk about something bucky didnt like it. That's so pushing. And 00:32 this wide shot of bucky with vibes empty/loss/sad. That means he's in doubt. Like no purpose. That's why this angle took in the middle. 01:05 Medium close up, that means he start begin with something. From 00:32 (wide shot) in doubtful feeling, to medium close up by making something different for his first step. And this angle (03:12) this is half angle. I think this is represent that he's in felt nothing of what is his doing, still in doubt about himself, but feels little better because this distance shot is very close from this shot (00:32) Well i guess thats what i think about the meaning of cinematography about bucky's character development. To be honest, this is great cinematography. But this is my opinion.
@@7judas77 forest mean something like, it's freshing, freedom, natural, calm or peaceful. And Bucky wants some peaceful, but he doesn't know how to do it.
IDK if anyone noticed but at 00:01 the closeup focuses on his eye. You can see what appears to be a drop of moisture in the middle of his cheek. Is that meant to be a tear?
Has anyone else noted that he talks about going from one fight to another for NINETY years? Ninety years ago he would have been 16 - he didn't join the army til he was 26. Did he count those ten years of having to go and rescue Steve from all of his fights? 😂
@@jamesdiaz5269 if you put on captions he definitely says 90. And that's exactly what he meant, frozen, rinse, repeat over those 90 years. But my point is that he's 106. 90 years fighting means he was fighting from the age of 16 and he didn't fight in WW2 until he was 26. Hence my joke.
Crazy right since I’m the same sequence we see him using a tablet with ease. That’s where I kind of don’t understand why they made him have a flip phone other than for the he’s old impact. Furthermore, it is weird he chooses a flip phone because he was not living freely until deep into the smartphone age and if he wanted something simple, it’s simpler and easier to buy a smartphone these days.
The flip phone is also cheaper since it's older. He's not exactly rich and probably struggles to get a job being that he has a criminal record. He probably gets some social security from the government but usually that isn't very much so he's probably on a tight budget, Unlike Ironman or black panther who can pretty much afford whatever they want since they're wealthy.
Even though his arc in the finale felt a bit rushed, I am very happy that Marvel decided to dig deep into Bucky's PTSD & trauma, they did a good job imo. My take on it is that they explored one part of his arc in the show, maybe they'll do the remaining parts in the future shows and movies, so I am very hopeful
i had the same thought but you know what? I reconciled it like this: when sam told him he needs to amend not avenge he thought "hell yes I am gonna amend the shit out of this" and then he rushed through his list amending like bam bam bam and then he came to sam and told him "i amended, see, now I don't need therapy" and sam shakes his head and says "Dude. no. just - just no. This is not how this works. this isn't how ANY of this works"
I actually really like the Therapist character they gave him to talk with. At the end she said she was also a soldier who saw a lot of death in the field. I'd guess she's probably in her 50s for age. From her frustrations with Bucky they have definitely had several appointments in the past but Bucky continues to be a wall. (Possibly he's had to talk with her for about a year.) We don't know if she is the first or maybe even the 4th therapist Bucky has been assigned, but what we do know is she pushes back and he listens. He doesn't like it, he's annoyed by it, he makes counterpoints, but he never yells back and also he keeps going to their sessions. If there is a session, I hope they keep her.
@@gunbladeuser19 I feel like the therapist makes fun of him and devalues his trauma though. I get they needed someone to give the tough love approach as that's what Bucky would know from his era; but she was downright cruel and dismissive at times. Maybe if they had more scenes of her being frustrated with Bucky stonewalling her, then switching gears, it would have worked better.
@@manuferguson6564 I think Sam was more trying to give Bucky a purpose as he's been through it as well. (Both have different forms of PTSD) But then Sam was saddened because Bucky seemed to think that the "amends" was like a mission rather than a lifetime work in progress. And Sam, having been there, knows that can be unhealthy because it keeps Bucky from dealing with his trauma. I was really surprised they decided to actually go into veteran trauma and I'm glad they did. Having had family who served, it means a lot to me to see this issue being brought to the forefront.
Sebastian does quiet, intense scenes like a boss. He needs to teach this in an acting class. I don't think the therapist is actually there to help him. She's only there to make sure Bucky doesn't become The Winter Soldier again. Bucky needs to get another psychiatrist. Nevermind. Bucky has Sam. Sam is an awesome counselor.
And that is why I hated Cap's ending He just abandoned everyone for Peggy Even though she had told him Captain America winter soldier Live your life, I fell in love again after you went in the ice and had a family, You can have what I had with someone else, There is a woman out there waiting for you"
Well he did mention that Steve brought up his plan to Bucky first and Bucky was in full support of it. Besides after everything Steve did for the world, he deserved it.
After everything Bucky has been through, he deserves peace, its not bullshit. Also he probably doesn't like the notebook, because Hydra had the red notebook with the star that had the code words to control him turning him into the winter solider, so, yeah, trauma
What truly irks me more than anything, “So what do you want?” “Peace”. “That is utter bullshit.” What the absolute fuck? I can’t stand how she just shut him down like that. How she correlates being alone with peace. That just shows her lack of understanding and compassion. Because i’d just straight up walk out after that. His idea of peace isn’t about being alone… he just wants his mind at ease.
I can relate more to Bucky than most marvel characters. Being brainwashed into doing something you don’t wanna do or have any control over, going from one fight to another, not being able to open up to anyone other than Cap. His personal hell is how I feel what I went through during the first two years of the pandemic.
@sdb7012 "Being brainwashed into doing something you don’t wanna do or have any control over, going from one fight to another, not being able to open up to anyone other than Cap (his only friend)" is bucky a metaphor for clinical depression? I... felt that comment. Great analogy.
But sadly Steve LEFT not just Bucky, but EVERYONE ELSE to be a SIMP to his already deceased wife. Like E1 Harrison Wells at The Flash 7x03 (Yes I knew he came back, but I'm not willing to know considering that was the rod that broke the camels' back)
the series is underrated, it's too good, and Sebastian's acting amazes me, the atmosphere is conveyed so well in this moment, and in general Seb is a good actor! And I recommend watching the series, it reveals a lot of details and problems of several characters, so it turned out pretty well, even this moment gives goosebumps, and how good the voice is..and this is only one moment, but I want to watch it again after 3 years)
Then later after Christmas 🎄 Therapist: James tell me Clearly what happened this time. Bucky: nah I don’t need to repeat myself. Therapist: I DO find it hard to believe a blue space cyborg came to your home, and beat you up, just to take your arm as a Christmas present 🎁 for a talking raccoon.
I wanna imagine someone said this to Bucky: "James Buchanan Barnes, u are a brainwashed cyborg assassins, who comited numerious crimes for the criminal organization, known as Hydra, and we are unsure, if u are still under the influance of said brainwash, but because u literaly helped saving half the universe, we pardon u under the condition that u regularly attend therapy sessions."
He was brainwashed, tortured with electric shocks to "wipe" his memory and before the fall from the train experimented on (probably had that afterwards too), frozen for years on end, and then exploited by the rich and powerful including the very country which he once fought for. US government.... "Yeah the tortured former military vet we hired as an assassin might be a bit disturbed. He needs therapy". He needs a rest, and like compensation. Also whose idea was it that he "make amends" to the powerful people - i.e Senators who were using him in the first place? They should be making amends to him.
Time for pointing out what she did awfully :) 1. Look through his phone, she has no right, he deserves the privacy and not only that she proceeds to insult him and tell him he’s all alone 2. When he refuses to speak she purposely makes a nervous setting so he feels pressured into talking. 3. 0/1000 patience 4. She’s just awful man he needs therapy from his therapist- 5. Make him feel forced to talk and when he does or slightly aggravates her and you can see he purposely aggravates people to cope, she proceeds to insult him and tell him he’s alone, his life is sad and that only calling your therapist is a sad thing.
Also what is it with the notebook? I wonder if that was a specific trigger that Bucky had? His Soviet Handler used a red notebook to control him which contained his trigger words (as shown in Captain America: Civil War). Someone said that he turns his head away whenever she gets the notebook out, which would seem to support the idea that he finds it upsetting or triggering.
Ugh. Everything about this scene. Its clearly been written by people who have no experience of therapy, mental health or PTSD. I mean the "therapist" is not only a rank incompetent she may actually be guilty of malpractice. Violating your client's privacy by checking their phone? *Really?* Gaslighting them- which is what the "bullshit" thing was? Therapists are meant to listen, not judge thier clients and tell them thier wishes and desires are wrong, and above all they're meant to be neutral. I want to know how *precisely* "making amends" is supposed to help with PTSD related flashbacks and nightmares too. I've never heard of such a treatment. Also: that whole thing with the phone. Ugh- it just angers me so much. This is a man who was robbed of his autonomy, including autonomy over his own body and mind for 70 years. His newfound right to privacy was something that probably meant a great deal to Bucky after all that, and to just have it so casually ignored like that must have been really upsetting. Someone bought up another point in the comments too: Bucky was experimented on and held in a Prisoner of War camp. Its very likely that as a result of that he disliked Doctors and anything that resembled an interrogation or test would have been triggering as well. He was almost certainly interrogated in addition to having been tortured and experimented on in that camp: and honestly, this "therapy" session doesn't look too different from being interrogated. No wonder he was reluctant to open up.
"I was an excellent soldier so I saw a lot of dead bodies, and I know how that can shut you down." says the woman who wouldn't be allowed anywhere near an active combat zone considering her age.
Considering US female soldiers were allowed in combat roles in the 90'... this is 2024 in universe... she seems to be in her early 60'... Maybe she was in active war zones.
you have to think this is a fictional world even though it feels so real. Think about something like maybe shes a secret agent in the past for shield and was in missions that she saw a lot of dead people, just like how Peggy Carter was in WW2 with Steve. Something similar perhaps.
She saw a lot of bodies yes, but she didn't see half of the shit Bucky did, she didn't have her brain scrambled to the point that it probably looks like melted ice cream
Imagine if we instead got Doc Samson (played by Ty Burrell from The Incredible Hulk), who’s Betty’s boyfriend while Banner was away for 5 years. He is a head-shrink (which is slang for a psychiatrist).
The therapist wasn’t really portrayed like a real life one. A real therapist would give Bucky some boundaries and space and time. Not be so forceful and passive aggressive towards him lol
If I were bucky I would ask if I am allowed to be a citizen In wakanda that the only place this dude has found piece in the last 100 years. He was even in peace when he was an iceberg
I would love for a Bucky series that would focus on him trying to fit into the modern world. They did it a bit in this series, but I would actually love a series focused on Bucky.
His voice goes quiet and a little shaky several times in this 4 minute clip and yet still all this therapist does is throw his triggers, past trauma, and the fact that he’s alone in his face, says “bullshit” when he does finally let himself open up, and compares her own experiences to Bucky’s when we’re all damn well aware Bucky’s past is _very_ different and not just the forced killing (torture, abuse, psychological manipulation, experimentation). Bucky’s right, she really is a terrible shrink
@@fulcrum097 She would have been fired in my country and have her license pulled for harassing a patient like that. Making fun of a PTSD patient when they open up is about the worst thing you can do to them. It shuts them down even more.
I actually hate the way Bucky described what happened with Senator Attwood "I helped her get into power" "she abused the power I gave her". He makes it sound like it was a reciprocal agreement when in fact Atwood would have been *his handler*. Like Pierce, she would have been the one with power in that situation calling the shots.
Might be a dumb question... how's he tapping a tablet with his metal arm?... Ik it might be stupid... pls just educate me and refrain from... fighting me, I'm smol
I hate how much they chopped this up in editing. Bucky got shafted in terms of breathing room for scenes. The conversation with Nakajima was embarrassingly edited.
Glad I'm not the only that thinks Bucky wasn't getting the proper help he needed in this scene. Really wish they'd stop using Bucky as a punching bag, they had such a chance in this series and they just used it mostly to put Bucky down. I don't get it.
having BAF1 energy is rough! I'm from Detroit, they never show this side of us "making amends"! He didn't hurt that guy, he killed him before we even knew what happened. Thrust me, it didn't hurt! -From a guy that ignores everything from everyone, that has only 10 contacts in his phone. It's... weird. for us.
Bucky was such a layered, complicated character... Easily could've had his own solo show, mopping up Hydra, confronting his victims, working out his guilt. And instead, they did virtually nothing with him. Shame.
@@erinv1232 I’ve been in therapy a lot. She’s not very understanding of his boundaries or compassionate about what he’s been through. He just opened up to her about the calm in Wakanda and completely shut him down. He may actually truly want peace, and if that’s true she should help him get there, not call it bullshit. I don’t think she should be persistent about Bucky sharing his “nightmares”, and see that he’s clearly uncomfortable with it. He has no reason to share it with her. In his mind he’s thinking how could she possibly understand that who he was a person, what made him James Bucky Barnes was stripped away repeatedly? Answer is she can’t. She should focus on the little things, the small progress he’s made and encourage to share when he’s ready to. Not belittle him. He already does that to himself on a daily basis.
There are independent webtoons out there that usually have less than 5 people working on them and have better representations of therapy than this. I don't see how a billion-dollar company that literally has the budget to bring therapists in and ask them how they would handle something like this has an excuse. I don't know why Hollywood thinks having more accurate representations of therapy is bad or boring. Sounds like you could definitely see a lot of a character with that method.
Ugh, did you watch the show? It's made clear she's bad at her therapy and when Bucky finally talks to Sam he gives him the right therapeutic advice he needed all along.
