Bad anything can lead to bad outcomes, so it makes sense that bad therapy would definitely lead to negative outcomes. Of course, the opposite also applies: Quality therapy can lead to positive outcomes. That has been my experience fortunately.

The hard part? Recognizing very early on when you've encountered bad therapy and extracting yourself from it as soon as possible before lasting damage is done. Too often, it isn't recognized early on and the results can be very damaging.

I was fortunate enough to recognize early on. It wasn't necessarily that the therapist was actually "bad;" they might have been marvelous for a different client. But I recognized early on they weren't going to work well for me, and I walked away quickly, before there were any real effects on me.