Bad Boundaries in Therapy
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey deserving listeners, today's episode is about boundaries in therapy and when boundaries can be helpful in therapy |
| 0:08.0 | and when boundaries crossings can be bad for both the therapist and the client. |
| 0:14.8 | I'm going to be talking in this episode for an hour or actually I think two and a half hours. |
| 0:19.6 | I already recorded the interview with Liz. She went through a situation with a therapist years ago |
| 0:26.2 | and it to me presents an excellent crucible upon which we can analyze the reasons why therapists need to have boundaries with |
| 0:36.2 | their clients and I think this is important for a number of reasons one |
| 0:39.9 | obviously there are a lot of therapists listening to this podcast about half of our |
| 0:44.1 | listeners are therapists and there's a lot of nuances to boundaries. Some people |
| 0:50.3 | have a style where they have very rigid boundaries with their clients. |
| 0:55.1 | Some therapists have a style of therapy that is very loose boundryed with their clients. |
| 1:00.6 | And at the ends of the spectrum, it can become problematic, but there's a pretty broad range of what's accepted and what's considered the standard of care and what's considered ethical. |
| 1:10.0 | Meaning that some therapists might share personal details with their clients while others won't. |
| 1:15.0 | Some therapists allow clients to text them off hours and some therapists don't. I tend to be on the side of the spectrum |
| 1:26.2 | that has a lot of boundaries with my clients. Not that I'm not warm, not that I'm not |
| 1:30.8 | caring, not that I'm not empathetic but that I just it's just my style I developed it long ago and I feel comfortable in it there's pros and cons to my style |
| 1:40.9 | but I understand that and this is where I want to operate and this is how I disclose |
| 1:47.8 | to my clients, you know, when I start therapy with them. |
| 1:51.3 | Anyway, so there's a lot of variance in there. |
| 1:53.7 | So this case example that we're going to talk about for two and a half hours, I think provides a lot of |
| 1:59.6 | different angles for you clinicians out there to not only understand the reasons as to why we have |
| 2:07.9 | boundaries because it's squishy. The thing is is there's one of the most frustrating things about this job for me and many of my colleagues |
| 2:16.8 | is that there aren't defined rules for a lot of the things that we do as therapists. |
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