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Old Jul 02, 2015, 10:53 PM
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This is one of the things where there is no right answer, it's all about personal preferences. To my taste, this is not the behavior I would accept in my therapist, but I know that many people can either tolerate it or be totally fine with it. To me, frankly, this sounds very unprofessional and I would look for other options, but I understand that when the connection is made with the therapist and when you are getting something out of seeing her, this is important and is hard to give up. Regardless of what you decide, I would talk to her because when someone has a problem defining the parameters of their professional relationships with clients and sticking to those parameters, then who knows what other boundaries can be broken. While it's ok to stay with her for the sake of continuing to reap the benefits of the work with her, I do consider the behaviors you described red flags and I would watch out if I were you. In any case, I would definitely talk to her about it.
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