Thanks for the reference.

Are you responding to my post or to an imaginary post? I never said correlation is causation. I've gone to college, I know the difference. Neither did I say the conditions of practice determine the ethics of a practitioner.

You don't have to defend your choice of seeing a therapist in solo practice by distorting what I said and call it a fallacy. It's your therapy, it's your choice, you don't have to defend anything, I'm just sharing an opinion, not telling you what to do.

There are conditions that make certain kinds of unethical behavior easier. A licensed therapist for instance is less likely to act unethically. But that's also a correlation. Licensed therapists also abuse people. Nothing guarantees anything. We all try to reduce likelihood of getting hurt, that's why we rely on so many things to determine if a therapist is a good therapist for us.

Based on my experience, I advise caution, especially to people who have no supportive friends or family or others in their lives (even other professionals) who are knowledgeable or informed about this person's therapy. This is not the case with some people, as they are not alone, they know the difference between abuse and not abuse, they have supportive friends and family, they received recommendations about a particular therapist from other health professionals who know the therapist and even check in with the person to see how their therapy is going, etc.

But if a person on their own picks a therapist, perhaps from an ad, person who works in solo practice, and have none of these other people who care for this person and can alert them to problems they are unaware of, I urge them to approach solo practice with caution.