I agree it's not ok for the most part and I suspect frowned upon by other Ts despite being *technically* ok in the APA ethics, but there are some grey areas such as a therapist saw a client 4 times for a short term problem and ran into them 5 years later and they started to date. (These are the types of scenarios I think that component of the ethics is designed for in my opinion.)

He is an ethical therapist (and by far in comparison to some I see here) but I also think that everyone has their skeletons and makes mistakes, especially when starting out in a career.

T is not immune to mistakes or lapses in judgement and it would be unrealistic for me to think so.