I´d say this is a very important aspect that´s often overlooked. The meeting between a client and a T is about health care and because of that the client is in more vulnerable state than the T. Or should be at least. That´s why you can´t expect clients to always act rationally or to adjust behaviour to a T.

But what I´ve noticed when seeing so many T:s as I have, I feel many T:s sits their talking like it was an ordinary "coffee chat". As an example I´ve told T:s I sometimes have suicide thoughts, I have no plans and I don´t harm myself but still. They made a short comment and then they moved on.

Instead of paying more notice to such severe comments from a client, they´ve looked more to being able to ask a lot of questions. That´s another harmful thing for what if this was my number one issue? Of course I myself can stop them and tell them I want to talk more about a certain issue but when they show so little understanding and interest I don´t feel they are suitable as my T.

T:s can do much harm already during evalution, I had one T almost falling asleep and even if I know that hadn´t to do with me personally, I felt let down and sad and I never returned.