Dating Your Therapist (2019 Rerun)

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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[Rerun] Is it ever ok to date your therapist? Dr. Kirk Honda discusses the ethics and likely traumas.

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0:00.0	Psychology in Seattle.
0:06.9	Hey, deserving listeners. Today's episode is about situations in which clients and therapists,
0:14.9	one or other or both are thinking or even diving into dating each other and being in a romantic
0:22.0	relationship together. It's considered extremely unethical and grounds for losing your license and
0:29.2	maybe even a civil suit. And I get a lot of emails about this from clients who are attracted to
0:36.7	the therapists. It's common phenomenon. We've known about it for over a hundred years in this
0:43.3	profession and we've changed the way that we approach it over the years. And I've talked about it
0:50.9	before in the podcast. There's been cases in which the therapist and the client have dated or the
0:57.8	therapist hits on the client or the client hits on the therapist. It's a very common thing
1:04.4	that I get asked about. And I thought I would actually talk about it again because I got another
1:10.8	email about it that I think furthers the conversation. So let's get into that email. It's from
1:18.2	an anonymous patron. But first let's introduce the podcast. This is the Psychology in Seattle podcast.
1:23.8	I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda. I'm a therapist and a professor. So let's get into the email.
1:29.6	And she writes, this past year I became close to one of my male friends. I was hoping with time and
1:35.0	patience, it would turn into something romantic, but he moved away and I was heartbroken. So I went
1:41.1	to a therapist to sort out my emotions. I purposely picked this therapist because I wanted the male
1:47.8	perspective on relationships. I initially thought two or three sessions with suffice, but I was
1:53.3	wrong. On our second session, I started to find him quite attractive. And on his own, he told me that
1:59.8	he too was divorced with no children. We connected on an intellectual level. This is something I crave
2:08.3	in a man. At first, we were meeting every other week, but that turned into weekly sessions. And
2:14.5	then he started extending his sessions to two to three hours, even though he was just billing for one
2:20.1	hour. And yes, in a way, he was breaking boundaries. It has been four months, and I am really starting
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