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What are some signs that a therapist may have poor boundaries with their clients?

13.06.2025 07:09

What are some signs that a therapist may have poor boundaries with their clients?

General Introduction to Boundaries from Panahi Counseling:

Frequent phoning or texting of clients to “check up on them and make sure they’re OK.”

Struggling with fantasies of deeper connections with clients, whether sexual or parental or other intense or intimate relationships beyond psychotherapy.

Have anyone had an relationship of any kind with a spirit or demon, such as a succubus? If so, how was it?

Off the top of my ancient head:

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.

Sense of competition with persons who are important in the client’s life.

Why should you never do drugs? Will this story absolutely shock you?

Disclosing feelings, fantasies, and experiences to the client in ways not related to the work the client is engaged in.

Failing to mention the client in supervision/consultation, out of fear the supervisor/consultant will advise return to ordinary healthy boundaries.

Obsessing about clients outside of work hours.

Has anyone ever read The Holy Bible completely through? If so, what was your overall impression of it?

Serious disappointment when the client cancels a session.

Routinely going over the time limit with certain patients, compromising the time for the next client.

Eager anticipation (or anxious anticipation) of the next session in ways that distract.

How can you tell if someone or someone's is trying to recruit or at least test you for a secret organization?

Session-expressed curiosities about client details not relevant to the therapy.