So Bob, today I was on Reddit, and there's a subreddit called Talk Therapy, in which people talk about Talk Therapy.

And someone posted this picture with various different warning signs for therapists.

So it says therapist warning signs, and it has all these different warning signs of if your therapist is bad,

and I thought you and I would go over each of these and evaluate them, what do you say Bob?

Yeah, I'm curious.

Yeah, this is the Psychology and Seattle podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda. I'm a therapist and a professor.

And I'm your friend Bob from graduate school a hundred years ago, and a therapist here in practice in Seattle.

So therapist warning signs, let's start from the top, they ignore confidentiality.

Is that a good warning sign to look out for to see if your therapist is bad?

Absolutely.

Yeah, yeah. What kind of things might you see commonly if there was a problem with a therapist that ignored confidentiality?

They would reveal identifying information.

Right. They would talk about cases in a specific way, or cases.

They would talk about their clients in a specific way that made them perhaps more easy to identify.

I always think, you know, if they have a problem with that, then they probably have some

like loose personal boundaries where they're talking too much about themselves or usurping the hour

and dragging focus on to, you know, something that's not with the clients there for or whatever.

Yeah, I almost always see that when there are small indications of problems, it's usually the

tip of the iceberg with with these people. Yeah, the things that I've seen similar are a therapist

says something like, oh, you work at the same place as my other client, and it's so and so or

something like that. I hear stories like that. I've seen situations like that. And my, well,

why do you think therapists would do that? Why do you think they would break confidentiality in a

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