I Fell In Love With My Psychiatrist - Therapist Reacts
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 110 minutes
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August 29, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Hey to Zermal listeners, today's episode I am going to react to the viral TikTok series titled |
| 0:07.1 | I Fell in Love with My Psychiatrist by the TikToker named Kendra. |
| 0:14.0 | And this is an audio episode, but if you want to watch the video as I'm watching it, you want to go to YouTube and watch my episode there. |
| 0:25.7 | But let's get to it. |
| 0:27.1 | Hey, Desirmed listeners, some of you have been asking me to react to the viral TikTok series titled, I Fell in Love with My Psychiatrist by the TikToker named Kendra. |
| 0:37.1 | So I thought I would watch bits of it. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm going to watch the whole thing. |
| 0:41.3 | On YouTube, someone has compiled all the parts into one, |
| 0:46.3 | looks like it's 72 minutes. |
| 0:48.3 | And I will occasionally stop while I'm watching and chime in with my expertise. My name is Dr. Kirk Honda. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm a therapist and a professor, and I do specialize, |
| 1:00.0 | I have specialized since the beginning of my career |
| 1:03.0 | on the sort of clients who do fall in love with their clinicians. |
| 1:07.0 | It's not incredibly common, but it's common enough that in our field |
| 1:10.0 | we have training and research and a lot of philosophy around this and approaches and guidelines. |
| 1:16.6 | And I have worked with clients who have fallen in love with me. |
| 1:21.6 | I have supervised therapists, many therapists who have had clients fall in love with them. |
| 1:26.6 | I've been a consultant |
| 1:29.1 | on these sorts of cases. I've also worked from the other side of things where I have been a |
| 1:35.1 | consultant in legal cases in which the therapist actually crosses the boundary as well. |
| 1:41.1 | So I don't know if we're going to hear some details around that, but I do feel |
| 1:47.2 | like I have some expertise in this. So let's see what comes out of my face as I watch. |
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