I accidentally ended up in therapy as a kid because someone misunderstood what I'd said. I was incredibly naive and the 'rough' girls would tease me about it. One day we were in lunchtime detention (unsupervised; but we had some bookwork to complete and I had my head down, working) and these girls were telling tales about how they crept out their bedroom windows at night to visit their boyfriends. I was 13 at the time. I'd previously invented a boyfriend to get these girls off my back - one of them had pumped me for information about him and then use that 'information' to tell everyone how she had stolen my boyfriend. She didn't know he was imaginary. But they really were nasty, most of the time.
This day, they were asking me, "Are you a virgin?"
I didn't know what the word meant. At Sunday School we'd been taught that the Virgin Mary was a person without sin, and I knew sin was something unavoidable and I wasn't perfect, so after a few seconds of silence, I quietly answered, "No, I'm not."
The girls shut up. Nothing more was said for the whole of detention. They'd been bragging then tried to embarrass me, but that short gap while I thought, must have seemed to them like they'd hit a nerve or something. They must have told a teacher, who called my mother, and I spent the next 18 months having weekly counselling for reasons which were never divulged. The counsellor ONCE asked me about that incident and I explained it to her (having since realised my error) but they kept up the counselling anyway.
I do remember some counsellor asking, "Do you think you have an inferiority complex?" and I replied, "No, it's not a complex - I AM inferior." And I meant it.
So maybe the counselling was needed for other reasons, and the mistake just made it easier to get the process off the ground.
Sometimes things happen for a reason. If the therapist acts on the statements then it's most likely even a cursory inspection will find them to be false - this happens a lot. And if the therapist has already formed the conclusion that difficult child was making it up - then that's good too, because future accusations are following an already recognised pattern.
Sometimes when they say things like this to a therapist when they're younger, it gets it dealt with earlier and later, more carefully crafted accusations then don't have a chance of getting off the ground.
At least I hope so in this case, anyway.
Fingers crossed for you.
by the way, I suspect the therapist was watching your face. That says a lot.
Marg