I am going to try to be realistic and throw out my best interpretation of what's going on:
"Sunny's T is really excited about a new technique called LI. He shared this with her because they are close and he knew she would be interested. He also thinks she could benefit from this type of therapy and do really well with it, because he knows she has PTSD and they have successfully done ego state therapy together. So he knows she can do this therapy. He tried it himself at his workshop, thought it was really cool, shared this with her, and it did indeed sound intriguing to sunny. Because of his camaraderie with sunny and their shared interests, he occasionally slips into conversation with her almost as a peer rather than a client. And so he said some things to her he might say to someone who is not a client who has bonded to him so deeply: that a plus of LI is that it doesn't require the therapeutic relationship, that what is more important is the client relationship with self, the T is in the background, and so this technique does not foster undesirable dependence on the therapist. These are words he might share with a colleague, who can appreciate the effort and drain of trying to connect with client after client day after day, but probably not best to share with a client who values that connection so much. Oops."
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