Therapist Flirts With Client
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2023
⏱️ 92 minutes
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00:00 Individual therapy within a family
10:35 Transfer & countertransference
20:50 Attraction to a client
40:24 Distortions & personality disorders
50:10 Therapist red flags
1:03:11 Emotional violations
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August 16, 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, deserve listeners. It's just me today. I received an email recently from someone |
| 0:06.8 | emailing in as a client saying that her and her therapist are maybe starting a romantic |
| 0:14.7 | sexual type of relationship. And so I thought I would review that email in this episode and |
| 0:22.8 | talk about all the different things that need to be discussed when we talk about this sort |
| 0:29.5 | of thing. So let's get into it. This email is from an anonymous YouTube member. She says, |
| 0:36.8 | I would like your opinion on my therapist. I feel like there is a lot of transferants, counter |
| 0:43.6 | transferants going on. But I've never been in therapy before. So I don't know if it's normal. |
| 0:52.0 | I didn't expect such a strong emotional connection with my therapist. So maybe I'm just over-analyzing |
| 0:57.5 | it. I started therapy about five months ago. So it sounds like for the first time, |
| 1:05.3 | five months ago started therapy. I'm a 40-year-old female with two children. I have been in an |
| 1:12.8 | abusive marriage since I met my husband in high school. Okay, so she's 40, two kids currently married |
| 1:20.6 | and she's saying abusive and she's been with him since high school. So you know, 20 plus years. |
| 1:29.5 | I found a therapist and wanted my kids to go to therapy as well. So the therapist sees all three |
| 1:36.6 | of us separately. So sees the mom, the emailer, and also her two kids. I thought this was normal, |
| 1:46.1 | but I've recently been told that it's not, okay, just chiming in. So I'm guessing that you might |
| 1:53.3 | have been asking around about this transferants, counter transferants, or maybe something else. |
| 1:59.2 | And people are saying to you that it's not normal or maybe even claiming it's unethical |
| 2:04.9 | for your therapist to see you and your two kids all individually in therapy. And the way people |
| 2:13.9 | talk about this is absurd. People even ethics teachers sometimes miss the market on this. |
| 2:23.3 | So when you actually talk to people who adjudicate these kinds of things or who litigate these |
| 2:28.0 | things in court or who review these things for licensing boards, they will never tell you that |
| 2:36.0 | it's unethical for a therapist to see a mom and her two kids individually. There are pros and |
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