Thanks Campy. I also believe that drummergirl was expressing well-meant genuine concern, and also that Pink has her own feelings and experience that may make it hard for her to receive that warning. Trusting therapists is hard, but essential to healing for a lot of us. It's hard to balance that with the possibility of unethical therapists. Pinksoil has not apparently had cause to suspect her T of being unethical, and from what I have read I don't have any reason to think that she is missing anything here either.

Love is powerful, and can be scary. It can be awkward at times. Some of my developmentally delayed clients keep asking me if I love them, and they seem to need me to. I don't know how to respond to them without hurting them or setting them up for one or another kind of hurt later on either when I leave, or they trust someone too much. The more I think about it, the more I think that the only interest that would be served by denying a client love would be my own interest in not appearing suspicious to anyone. There are appropriate kinds of love for any relationship. It's just important to make sure that the kind of love offered is the appropriate kind. I know that I want desperately to believe that my T loves me too.