I would never, ever, ever in a million, trillion, gazillion years see a therapist who didn't have the gumption and self preservation to get a new therapist after discovering that hers was a hoarder who left blood stained underwear lying around.

People who don't have their own emotional houses in order (and this includes being able to easily make good decisions for themselves, like not paying a raving maniac to not give them therapy for five years) should not be therapists.

Both the person who wrote this and the 'therapist' she saw seem like complete trainwrecks.

And then the comments... nobody is really condemning this. It's all navel gazing and hmming and hawing about valuable experiences, etc.

The field of therapy would be greatly enriched by therapists climbing out of their own butt holes once in a while and questioning whether someone who paid a hoarder to give them therapy for five years should be allowed access to the big girl scissors, let alone allowed to actually give others therapy.