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Originally Posted by emptyspace
If you suffered CSA, would you be able to work with a T who previously "treated" offenders?
See a T that specifically spent several years trying to do therapy with sex offenders?
Something about going from "treating" offenders to helping victims/survivors is odd to me.... especially when studies have shown that almost 50% of sex offenders are rearrested for some crime and therapy only reduces the recidivism rate <20%.
I know that many offenders were victims themselves, but they made a choice to hurt someone else and therefore became offenders, in a different category. Most victims do not.
It makes me question how "sincere" a therapist can be if they can play sides of such an extreme dichotomy of abuser/victim.
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I've run into this before. My previous therapist worked with abusers. My current one does too.
It's not easy to reconcile at all. Did he normalize their actions? Offer them support? Tell them everything would be okay?
Where did they sit in the waiting room? Did they sit where I sat in the office? Did I see one in the waiting room?
My previous therapist finally told me that he didn't see anyone that was currently offending, but whose history did include it. My current therapist sees court ordered cases, so all bets are off there.
I guess the bottom line turned out to be how they were with me. Who knows maybe because they are getting help they can turn things around.