Ethics Violations and Dual Relationships
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 23 May 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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00:00 Navigating small communities as a therapist
25:36 Should I continue therapy after my therapist has a dual relationship?
34:34 Is it ethical for my therapist to refer his clients to group therapy?
42:45 Do therapists need to give me a referral?
1:00:28 Sharing gratitude
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May 23, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, deserving listeners. This is part two in me going over some ethical dilemmas. |
| 0:07.3 | And let's talk about this one. This is a very interesting one. It is from an anonymous patron. |
| 0:14.6 | She actually, in filling out the form, she gave me her name and said she wanted to be anonymous, but she also |
| 0:24.7 | wondered if I remembered her as a former student of mine. And what I will say is, I absolutely do |
| 0:31.8 | remember you. I think she was actually saying that she didn't think I would remember her, but I absolutely |
| 0:41.0 | remember her. |
| 0:41.5 | I don't remember every student easily anyway. |
| 0:45.1 | I usually will remember if I see their face because I have a pretty good memory for faces. |
| 0:50.8 | And once I see a face and I often can remember a lot of other things about them. |
| 0:57.0 | But when it comes to names and stuff, but I remember the face and the name. And when I saw the name, |
| 1:01.6 | I saw the face in my mind. And I remember as a student, you were very thoughtful and smart and capable and talented. And so it's nice to hear from you |
| 1:16.5 | going on here. Anonymous patron, she writes, I'm a former student of yours from Anniak from way back, |
| 1:23.6 | and I also learn so much from your podcast about not being a shitty therapist, so thank you. |
| 1:30.4 | I'm curious about your thoughts on being a therapist in small communities, in this case, |
| 1:34.8 | in the small community of the Seattle queer community. |
| 1:38.4 | Okay, you're curious about thoughts about small community and therapists and ethics. |
| 1:42.4 | And yeah, so as a caveat to all this, if you don't know if you're not in our world |
| 1:50.2 | as therapists, we have all of our ethical codes about dual relationships, meaning |
| 1:55.2 | that whether we call them dual relationships or multiple relationships, what we're talking |
| 2:00.3 | about is we want to avoid having more than one relationship with a client, meaning that we have one relationship where we have therapist and client. That's one relationship. We don't want to introduce another relationship like a friend relationship or a working colleague relationship, |
| 2:20.3 | right? Like you go into business with each other or you don't want to hire your therapist |
| 2:24.7 | to babysit your kids because that's another relationship. And whenever you add relationships, |
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