I have heard it is an issue for therapists early in their careers that that sort-of take all their patients home with them and think about how to help them outside of their work hours. Later on the good T's learn how to set limits so that they don't burn out. I'm thinking it is probably impossible for most people/T's to completely forget about their clients completely when their not at work, but I think they try to learn to compartmentalize. It's just like us learning how not to take our work home with us.

I admit I'm a googler too! I looked up my T after our very first session. I read some published articles her work is quoted in. I've never told her, but I learned what some of her past reasearch is on so I know a few things that she is specifically interested in. Her past research wasn't on something that is my particular issue and I admit that kind-of bummed me out. I want to be highly interesting to her so that she wants to spend lots of time with me and write a book about what an interesting case I am! Ha Ha