Creepy Therapists and Metabolizing Client Emotion
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 7 July 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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00:00 Creepy therapist
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14:25 Difficult clinical moments
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July 7, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | So Bob, emails, what do you say? |
| 0:01.3 | Yes. |
| 0:02.1 | All right. |
| 0:02.5 | Listener, Ashley, from Riverside, California. |
| 0:04.3 | She wrote in and said, my therapist confessed that he likes me more than just a client. |
| 0:13.0 | Bob grimaced. |
| 0:14.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:15.3 | My therapist confessed that he likes me more than just a client. |
| 0:18.0 | I have had feelings of attraction towards him before. |
| 0:20.6 | However, I did my research, and as a student pursuing client. I have had feelings of attraction towards him before. However, |
| 0:21.0 | I did my research and as a student pursuing psychology, I have decided that these feelings were |
| 0:25.1 | perhaps temporary and I should work on understanding transference. But about a month or two later, |
| 0:31.0 | after he told me he likes me more of a client, he asked me out to dinner. He asked me out to dinner. |
| 0:36.0 | So were they having sessions that she was paying, |
| 0:38.3 | she, she? Yeah. She was paying for these sessions and as a result of these sessions, he asks her out |
| 0:44.5 | for dinner. Does that just feel icky on many levels? Yeah. Yeah. Disgusting. I thought it was for a |
| 0:52.1 | session because his office allows therapists to meet outside, such as coffee shops, stores, etc. I thought it was for a session because his office allows therapists to meet outside, |
| 0:55.2 | such as coffee shops, stores, etc. I went to dinner with him. He began to vent to me about his day |
| 1:02.1 | as a therapist. He also said that in his 14 years of working, he had never felt this way, |
| 1:08.3 | and he liked me a lot. He said I was sexy. |
| 1:12.0 | He said I made him excited and nervous. |
| 1:14.2 | He said how he wanted to hold my hand and take me out. |
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