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Originally Posted by unaluna
I would not call you selfish if you did not report your former t. There was illness, there was religion as a complicating factor (i dont know how to begin to resolve that). Your actions would not change the religious question that any potential client of hers would face, so why is this on your shoulders? In a southern state??
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Well, a lot more went down with my T after I left here. The purpose of reporting her is to prevent her from causing harm to anyone else. The ACA considers me a T, even as a student, and I'm supposed to protect clients, even when they are not mine. That's why I perceive not doing so as selfish. Basically, she should have suspended her practice until she finished chemo or at least felt better.
The religious issue is covered in depth in the ACA code of ethics: for one, a T can't push her belief system on a client, and two, one of the reasons my therapy with her ended was that she refused to counsel me regarding my bisexuality. This direct quote is emblazoned in my memory: "You know you shouldn't ask me to counsel you in that area because you know my belief system and that I think it's wrong." I told this story in Track 1 residency and my prof's and classmates' jaws dropped. The point is, I shouldn't have even really known what her beliefs are. I confronted her about it in the next session and she said that she disagreed with her professors (who were just trying to teach her ethics codes which state specifically that religion should only be brought up by the client and the T must adapt to the client's religion, not the other way around.
Boundary violations occurred when she hired me to do some work for her. When I attempted to ask her why she did it, even though she knew it was wrong to do it in my case, she refused to talk about it, which ultimately destroyed the therapeutic relationship for good. We even had a session where we yelled at each other.
All of the above calls her competence into question.