(That probably sounds better in Latin.)

It's often remarked around here how clueless therapists can be - on the effects on a client of changing boundaries, or not setting them in the first place (is it OK to email? etc.), on how their words might affect or hurt a client, on how their not returning emails or texts or phone calls might upset a client, on transference and how to deal with it. I'm not talking about being clueless in the field in which they have built a career, I'm talking about clueless in the area of therapist-client interaction, which is kind of the key part.

I got a prime example of their cluelessness today. (Why on earth would you think that a client who desperately wants/needs to talk through a trauma would only do it once a month?) I have several real beauts from my time with No. 3, including the locker room incident.

So, why? Yes, some of it is that they are human, not cyborg, but...Don't they go through therapy themselves to learn how clients feel? Isn't human interaction a key component of at least some kinds of therapy? In fact, isn't it what they study? Aren't they trained to think about these things? All theories welcome.

There's a poll, and feel free to share your therapist's most clueless moment below.