Just because a person has some sort of issue that makes it difficult for them to control themselves - whether it is invading privacy due to hypervigilance or bingeing due to an eating disorder - does not mean that person is absolved of responsibility for his or her actions. I already explained why I feel looking up your therapist's clients is different than other people.

And to be clear, I am not sitting in judgement of you for googling the names. I don't think you are "bad" for having done so. I can't even say what I would have done myself. I think the action was not very moral, but I'm also not trying to cast stones from my glass house. I do all sorts of things that are wrong, and the therapist tells me so. I added a counterperspective to your opinion that it wasn't wrong simply to explain why someone might disagree, not to demonize you or argue that you are "bad."

If you gave her the names of the people you saw on Skype, she may have included the family and friends bit because to only have said clients would have been a tacit admission that they were clients - which would have been a further HIPAA violation.