What are some signs that a therapist may have poor boundaries with their clients?
Last Updated: 02.07.2025 02:58
Serious disappointment when the client cancels a session.
Routinely going over the time limit with certain patients, compromising the time for the next client.
Failing to mention the client in supervision/consultation, out of fear the supervisor/consultant will advise return to ordinary healthy boundaries.
This galaxy cluster has mysterious cosmic tendrils over 200,000 light-years long (image) - Space
Eager anticipation (or anxious anticipation) of the next session in ways that distract.
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.
Do leftists understand why young men are becoming more right-wing?
General Introduction to Boundaries from Panahi Counseling:
Off the top of my ancient head:
Frequent phoning or texting of clients to “check up on them and make sure they’re OK.”
NASA sets new potential launch date for Ax-4 mission to ISS - SpaceNews
Struggling with fantasies of deeper connections with clients, whether sexual or parental or other intense or intimate relationships beyond psychotherapy.
Sense of competition with persons who are important in the client’s life.
Session-expressed curiosities about client details not relevant to the therapy.
Is there a band whose members have been present for every one of their concerts?
Disclosing feelings, fantasies, and experiences to the client in ways not related to the work the client is engaged in.