Therapist Convinces Client To Divorce
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 96 minutes
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00:00 How do you know a therapist is a hack?
02:36 Hannah's therapist red flags
21:51 Is it OK to make mistakes as a therapist?
36:40 Understanding personality & online nonsense
1:28:24 Was the client's autonomy violated?
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| 0:00.0 | So, Bob, I'm working on a mini deep dive on the signs that your therapist is a hack. |
| 0:07.1 | Oh. |
| 0:07.5 | And in preparation for that, I thought we would read some emails in which therapists might be, or might not be hacks. |
| 0:15.6 | Interesting. |
| 0:16.4 | Do you know what I mean by a therapist being a hack? |
| 0:19.4 | Oh, I think I got a sense of that, yeah. |
| 0:21.1 | What would you define it as? |
| 0:23.8 | Well, probably somebody thinks they know what they're doing. |
| 0:26.1 | It turns out they don't. |
| 0:27.6 | And they think they're doing a good job and they aren't. |
| 0:32.1 | And their clients have complaints about them that they're unaware of. |
| 0:35.9 | And they keep on pushing the same old |
| 0:38.0 | line because you know i don't know what maybe it's like self uh aggrandizement or something i don't know |
| 0:45.2 | well yeah i i think there are many factors i think the most prevalent fact prevalent factor is |
| 0:52.6 | the blind leading the blind on TikTok that you have therapists and |
| 0:58.6 | you know before there was TikTok we would just talk amongst ourselves blind leading the blind |
| 1:03.2 | I can't tell you how many times I was led astray regarding what ethics what was ethical |
| 1:08.8 | and what was legal because most therapists just talk amongst themselves |
| 1:14.2 | and like someone who just seems very confident in themselves will just speak out and say this is |
| 1:18.9 | unethical and then it just gets spread throughout your circle and then you actually talk with a lawyer |
| 1:24.2 | an expert or a judge and they'll nope, you don't know what you're |
| 1:29.0 | talking about, or, you know, an legal or, you know, an expert, academic in that area. And they'll |
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