most of the Ts i've seen have been totally professional and i really appreciate that. i've had two not so great experiences though. one self-disclosed way too much. while i had contacted him for coaching eventually he insisted we switch to counseling, but when i was really opened up & was vulnerable one session he decided to dump all his counseling clients the following week and go back to coaching only. talk about unprofessional! fortunately i hadn't seen him long and it was only bi-weekly so i wasn't very hurt considering. the other T i saw individually and she also taught an artist's way class and used my issues to try to manipulate me to stay in the class when i really needed to drop it. she said later it was a dual relationship which i didn't realize. i thought it was more like having the same T for both individual therapy and group therapy. not sure if that would be considered a dual relationship but i thought that was supposed to be okay.

i have to say i've learned a ton about therapy from this forum and now would have spoken up more when a T self-discloses too much or acts inappropriately. i did talk to the second T about what she did but it still basically ended my therapy with her. it wasn't the only reason i quit with her but a major one. that said, the first 3 Ts i've seen never did anything unprofessional.