What are some signs that a therapist may have poor boundaries with their clients?
13.06.2025 11:16
Sense of competition with persons who are important in the client’s life.
General Introduction to Boundaries from Panahi Counseling:
Off the top of my ancient head:
How do I come out as queer to my best friend in a funny and stupid way?
Session-expressed curiosities about client details not relevant to the therapy.
Failing to mention the client in supervision/consultation, out of fear the supervisor/consultant will advise return to ordinary healthy boundaries.
Frequent phoning or texting of clients to “check up on them and make sure they’re OK.”
What are some examples of unofficial acts by presidents?
Serious disappointment when the client cancels a session.
Routinely going over the time limit with certain patients, compromising the time for the next client.
Struggling with fantasies of deeper connections with clients, whether sexual or parental or other intense or intimate relationships beyond psychotherapy.
Would you let your partner cheat on you every now and again?
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.
Obsessing about clients outside of work hours.
Eager anticipation (or anxious anticipation) of the next session in ways that distract.
Why do men date women they are not really interested in?
Disclosing feelings, fantasies, and experiences to the client in ways not related to the work the client is engaged in.