What are some signs that a therapist may have poor boundaries with their clients?
14.06.2025 09:32
General Introduction to Boundaries from Panahi Counseling:
Eager anticipation (or anxious anticipation) of the next session in ways that distract.
Failing to mention the client in supervision/consultation, out of fear the supervisor/consultant will advise return to ordinary healthy boundaries.
Is anyone else losing complete respect for the US at this point?
Obsessing about clients outside of work hours.
Off the top of my ancient head:
Frequent phoning or texting of clients to “check up on them and make sure they’re OK.”
What is the irony of life according to you?
Routinely going over the time limit with certain patients, compromising the time for the next client.
Sense of competition with persons who are important in the client’s life.
Serious disappointment when the client cancels a session.
What happens to single guys when they get older?
Struggling with fantasies of deeper connections with clients, whether sexual or parental or other intense or intimate relationships beyond psychotherapy.
These items can happen fleetingly, briefly, in any therapy, but if they’re frequent, it’s definitely time for the therapist to get some good, solid supervision/consultation.
Session-expressed curiosities about client details not relevant to the therapy.
I can not sleep. what is the problem?
Disclosing feelings, fantasies, and experiences to the client in ways not related to the work the client is engaged in.