So, deserving listeners, as I've talked about before in previous episodes, my malpractice

insurance, it sends me case examples of situations in which a therapist gets sued successfully

by their clients or someone else. Whenever I see these emails, I always read them. There's

so much that can be learned from what is in these case examples. You not only learn about

the law, of course, but you learn about ethical codes. You also learn how these laws are applied,

which is actually not always intuitive and doesn't always match up with the common understandings

within our field. Judges and lawyers and juries, they don't always agree with the way

that us therapists, us counselors see things and they sometimes make very weird decisions. So,

these case examples show us how these people apply the law to our field because the law

is applied to us from people outside of the field. It's important that we understand this stuff so

we can avoid getting in trouble and we can avoid getting sued or we can avoid losing our license

or we can avoid sleepless nights where we're like on, you know, we're teetering on our, you know,

losing our profession, our livelihood. Another reason why I love these case examples is because

of shot and Freud. I get a little bit of pleasure reading about these, reading about them as

fortune of other people, particularly when the therapist is clearly acting unethically,

aka stupidly. A Bob is with me on the podcast. Is that make me a bad person?

No, no, no. We find amusement where we find amusement, right?

You know, it's like the pratfall of the counseling business, you know? Yeah.

It's like you're watching someone, someone falls over and they're okay and you sort of laugh and

you know, it's all about that. Well, that's what I want to talk about today. We're going to talk

about a case example in which a therapist was successfully sued for doing something that

therapist actually commonly do. I can't tell you how many times I have had to redirect a

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