there is often a lot of discussions and stories here about clients who have had bad or or harmful experiences with a therapist and i am quite curious as to how often and why those who have had adverse therapy experiences continue to seek or not seek further help from those in the same industry as the prior offending T.

what I find the most curious, and don't quite understand, is why some clients will seek the help of another T to help them process the harm that a previous T has caused, especially in the instances where there was a serious breach of trust by the offending T. not only is this harmed client having to address (and pay for) the original issues that brought them to T in the fist place with the next T, now they are adding the extra trauma/damage that was inflicted upon them by the prior T (and having to pay yet more to heal that damage).

also, i struggle with understanding how one could ever come to fully trust another T, expose their deepest vulnerabilities, so the therapy can be useful and productive after having such vulnerabilities taken advantage of.

personally, i am at a place where i don't plan to seek further therapy to repair or heal past damage by my former Ts.

this definilty baffles me... and i would love to hear others perspectives, both good and bad.