I don't think allowed is the right verb. I mean, I can forbid them making mistakes all day, but regardless, they will make them (thus compounding their error by adding in disobedience to the original mistake making). I think it depends upon the client and the mistake and how the therapist handles the situation as to how big of deal any mistake or mistakes are. I do think clients are far too quick to assume that the client is at fault and not the therapist. I believe far too many concessions are made in favor of therapists. But if other clients want to do bend over backwards for a therapist, then it is okay with me. I do not give the therapist the same leeway I give others, but I don't really think the the therapist cares one way or the other. They are perfectly happy, in my opinion, to label clients and ex-clients and go on their merry way with no twinge of acceptance of responsibility. Once the therapist's mistakes outweigh info I can glean from them, I find new ones to see.