Stop Having Sex With Clients
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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00:00 Intro
01:37 Can clients be friends with their therapists?
18:06 My therapist is pseudo-family
38:50 Having an affair with my ex-therapist
1:06:47 Lady Gaga & self-care
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April 2, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | So Rebecca, I have a bunch of emails today about people becoming friends or romantic or sexual |
| 0:07.4 | partners to their therapists or even like adopted by their therapist. |
| 0:12.9 | Oh, wow. |
| 0:13.2 | Like their therapist becomes like their pseudo mother or something. And I want to go over these |
| 0:18.6 | emails and read them. What do you say? Yeah. |
| 0:21.1 | This is the Psychology in Seattle podcast. |
| 0:22.9 | I'm your host, Dr. Kirkonda. |
| 0:24.1 | I'm a therapist and a professor. |
| 0:25.5 | Hi, I'm Rebecca Bloom. |
| 0:27.1 | I am a licensed mental health counselor in Seattle, I specialize in complex post-traumatic stress. |
| 0:35.2 | I'm a workshop leader. |
| 0:36.7 | I have a workshop on using tarot and therapy. |
| 0:41.1 | Where do they find that workshop? You can go to cascadia training.com or dot org. I have a very oddly |
| 0:50.3 | successful menopause and mental health workshop. Fifty people are coming by the time. |
| 0:56.1 | It's probably around the time this podcast airs. |
| 0:58.2 | So that's up from 30 people last time. |
| 1:00.7 | So I think I'm on to something here, Kirk. |
| 1:02.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:02.8 | And probably you'll have that course again in the future. |
| 1:06.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:06.9 | It's running four times this year. |
| 1:09.0 | Okay. |
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