I teach full time at a university in an area concerning health law, I still have a small private practice where I often am on the side opposing what an md or other mental health care professional wants to do to my client, and I have many friends who are msws and therapists. In that vein, the therapist is just another person I come into contact with and I am not less powerful than she is. I do not, however think we have the same knowledge. I pay her for her knowledge about therapy.