I was actually hoping you would post on here scorpiosis37 so thanks for that, I remember from the posts you made on another thread from a few months back that you being someone who has gone to what I consider "intimate gatherings" can actually have an opinion on the matter of if it is appropriate to socialize with a client or not.

I think it is a combination of many of the things you mentioned and yes boundaries do play a part in a Therapeutic relationship. I remember that you said that if you saw a student (I believe that's what you said) at something like "Burning Man" that you would leave and I couldn't disagree with you more, in fact I thought that you should do the exact opposite and try to embrace the student being there and to spend most of the rest of the gathering with him/her, but you think differently and I can sort of understand that. However I am a little strong in my beliefs that if a Therapist was to leave somewhere all together because of me being there that I would no longer want to see them because it makes me think that I am not worth being around or something along those lines.

I think that a Therapist may say that they may leave a gathering because of a client being there but until they have even been to one in the first place let alone see a client there they don't know how they will react. Although I should not that even though (to my knowledge) you have been to what I would consider an "intimate gathering" (such as burning man) you have yet to see a student there.