My T has told me things about other clients on rare occasions. Once he told me about an alcoholic client who adored his children but kept drinking even at the risk of losing custody in the context of explaining that some people cannot stop their destructive behaviors, but it doesn't mean that the person doesn't love those his behavior endangers. We were discussing my husband. I didn't like the example and thought his client was an *** who probably deserves to lose custody. [But maybe that's just me and my issues after living with abusive, alcoholic and drug addicted parents.]

The other time my T mentioned a client, he was telling me that nothing I could tell him could change how he "cares for" me. He told me he has a client who is a pedophile, and nothing I can say will be worse than what that guy discusses with him. He also mentioned that no matter what that guys says to him, my T still sees the horror of what this guy wants to do to children through the filter of the horrible, horrible things this guy's mother did to him, and never thinks the guy himself is a horrible person. [ummm, T, some of your clients ARE horrible people. ugh.]

Oh, and one time, he mentioned one of the items on his shelf -- a little house. He said the windows used to light up and one of his clients gave it to him at their last session with a note about how nice it was to actually be seen. He mentioned it in the context of how much I used to hide and didn't want to be seen, and I am just now getting to the point of wanting to be seen.