Dating Your Therapist (2019 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 26 December 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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October 9, 2019
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| 0:00.0 | Psychology in Seattle. |
| 0:05.0 | Hey, deserving listeners. |
| 0:08.0 | Today's episode is about situations in which clients and therapists, one or other or both, are thinking or even diving into dating each other and |
| 0:20.0 | being in a romantic relationship together. |
| 0:24.1 | It's considered extremely unethical and grounds for losing your license and maybe even a civil suit. |
| 0:31.5 | And I get a lot of emails about this from clients who are attracted to the therapists. It's a common phenomenon. We've known |
| 0:40.3 | about it for over 100 years in this profession, and we've changed the way that we |
| 0:46.6 | approach it over the years. And I've talked about it before on the podcast. There's been cases |
| 0:53.3 | in which the therapist and the client have dated or the therapist hits on the client or the client hits on the therapist. |
| 1:02.9 | It's a very common thing that I get asked about. |
| 1:06.7 | And I thought I would actually talk about it again because I got another email about it that I think furthers the conversation. |
| 1:15.6 | So let's get into that email. |
| 1:17.7 | It's from an anonymous patron. |
| 1:19.3 | But first, let's introduce the podcast. |
| 1:21.6 | This is the Psychology in Seattle podcast. |
| 1:23.9 | I'm your host, Dr. Kirkonda. |
| 1:25.6 | I'm a therapist and a professor. |
| 1:29.3 | So let's get into the email. |
| 1:35.1 | And she writes, this past year I became close to one of my male friends. I was hoping with time and patience it would turn into something romantic, but he moved away and I was heartbroken. So I went to a |
| 1:41.5 | therapist to sort out my emotions. I purposely picked this therapist because I wanted the male perspective on relationships. |
| 1:50.0 | I initially thought two or three sessions would suffice, but I was wrong. |
| 1:54.3 | On our second session, I started to find him quite attractive, and on his own, he told me that he, too, was divorced with no children. |
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