Nice article, and common sense: you can't make absolute rules about therapists crying. I mean, it isn't like they plan it or can even necessarily control it if and when it happens. It's what they do with it that is important. Are they tuned into how the client is reacting to their tears?

I know the one time I was really aware of him crying, my T shared with me how my experience recalled his own experience which set off his tears. It was a point where I really felt he understood the depth of the pain I was in because he had experienced similar pain. It was appropriately and authentically revealed and handled. (Unlike therapists who would just sort of blurt out "I understand what you went through because I went through blah, blah, blah in my past too." That kind of reveal always seemed false, ill-timed, and inappropriate.)