One of my first therapists was also involved in dressage horseback riding & our city was forming a new dressage club. My trainer took me & my T was there. We talked about it in T after that & she said no problem goibg & doing the same things we just cant talk therapy or acknowledge each other as T/client but we can just know each other....its ok.

Since then I left there & moved alone to an awesome small town & have an awesome new psycholigist who is just amazing. I was doing a ballroom dance waltz performance with my dance group last December. I invited friends & my psychologist because I had been talking about ut so much. I never expected her come out that night but she was there. Many in town know her because it is a small town & her husband is a professor at the college in that town. She came just to be a support & to see what I was doing. We didnt talk therapy or acknowledge each other as T/client but I did introduce her to my friends as a friend. It made me really feel good that she cared enough to go out of her way to do that. She knew I have no family & a few close friends so the support for a performance was so appreciated.

I think every situation is its own as to whether appropriate or not. For some it wouldnt be for others its fine.

In a small town everyone knows everyone else anyway so its not as easy to keep things that anonomous, but I love my small town life after living in Los Angeles all 54 years of my life till I moved here 10 years ago.