Again, the OP started with the statement that not offering evening or weekend hours is "obnoxious" and others added that anyone who can't accommodate evening or weekend hours, putting clients first, should never even enter the profession in the first place. However, person after person commented that their therapist does offer at least some evening or weekend hours, so apparently this isn't as obnoxious a problem as was originally posted, and people are finding therapists who do keep hours they can work with. My contention is that a therapist who chooses to keep regular (9-5 or 6) hours which apparently work fine for his clients and for his own personal life is not being obnoxious nor should he/she accused of not putting clients first or should it be argued they should never have entered the profession at all. I am simply going on claims/statements made directly by people on this thread.

As a family person, I do believe family MUST be placed first in a person's life. How many people here are in therapy for the fact that their own families did not place the health and welfare of their families first and foremost in their lives? It seems completely counter to everything we know about the importance of supportive families and good parenting to say therapists MUST put others before their own families and their own personal welfare. (Personally, I don't think that is quite what the ethics code intends, but since it keeps being quoted as the justification and reason these hours MUST be provided, then it is open for argument.)