I agree wholeheartedly. It's easy to exploit someone in distress, easy to exploit the aspect of us that longs to return to the shelter and cared for state of childhood or recover what we didn't receive then. I found the regression and infantilizing highly damaging.

Yes, my role was in wanting this. But my trained therapists were far more responsible for the fraud, pretending to be what they aren't and knowing what they didn't.