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Originally Posted by Merecat
In fairness, his practice has been pretty poor all along - given his lack of boundaries I'm not sure how 5-10 closure sessions would in any way help. It would just reactivate the over dependency he's fostered and you'd still have to go through the same loss that you're experiencing now. I know you want what you want but given the pain you've been in it might be better to just work through that with someone who can hold the therapeutic frame properly rather than end up entangled again with someone who isn't able to do that.
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Please. Have you ever been through really destructive or unethical therapy and then tried to shop that story around to other therapists? I have. What I found is that they mostly wanted to defend their colleague and the profession, to my further detriment. Beyond that they were largely useless.
Clients pay therapists to at least do no harm. When harm
is done, it's in the best interests of clients to do something about it. Not to roll over and submit to the presumed authority of the therapist, which is a completely defeating and disempowering dynamic that could itself be harmful. As is running off to another therapist looking for validation. It could be vitally important for the OP to tell the therapist directly what the experience has done.