A Client Kisses Her Therapist (2017 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So, Brito, I have an email from a listener that I want to read for you. |
| 0:11.5 | Will you indulge me? |
| 0:13.0 | Indulged. |
| 0:14.4 | The email goes, I saw a doctor specializing in CBT or cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety. I fell instantly in lust with him. After the therapy ended, I was crushed. I felt abandoned. I felt I was in love with him. I thought about him a lot. Ten years later, I contacted him. By the way, he teaches ethics to other clinicians, and he's 20 years |
| 0:42.0 | older than me. So I contacted him 10 years later. I expressed my attraction, and I think his ego was |
| 0:49.2 | flattered, and I seduced him over the phone. We had some intense texting. |
| 0:57.2 | So we met up and we kissed. |
| 1:00.7 | We met up a number of times and we just did kissing. |
| 1:05.5 | But then we decided to just be friends. |
| 1:08.6 | And I'm worried that I've left him racked with guilt. I have to |
| 1:13.8 | reassure him all the time that I'm fine whenever we chat. But I honestly feel our romantic |
| 1:19.7 | relationship helped me. After we kissed, all of my intense feelings for him disappeared. |
| 1:26.5 | And I saw him as a normal person rather than a |
| 1:29.5 | god. So I don't think that relationships with former clients should be frowned upon. I know a power |
| 1:36.7 | dynamic is involved, but surely the point of therapy is to allow clients to have true autonomy, |
| 1:43.6 | and part of that autonomy would be to choose |
| 1:46.1 | who they want to date. No doubt others have been hurt by predatory types. I think people should |
| 1:52.9 | be warned in advance of the intense emotions, she has intense in all caps, of the intense |
| 2:00.5 | emotions one may feel for their therapists and vice versa. |
| 2:04.7 | I wasn't prepared for it and was confused by my feelings. |
| 2:09.6 | By the way, we were both in committed relationships during this time and didn't want to see anyone hurt. |
| 2:16.3 | Strangely enough, I didn't see it as cheating. |
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