There are clients who get hurt because therapists take advantage of them or abuse them.

And there are clients who get hurt because they enter therapy in hopes to obtain a lover (yes that happened on here) or a friend or become a center of someone’s universe and then got hurt and disappointed because it didn’t happen. I think some people would avoid getting hurt if they accepted that they are going to be patients/clients and not friends and lovers and they can’t be more important than therapist’s family or loved ones. Therapists won’t stop getting married or have kids or move or retire or go on vacation or otherwise live their lives out of fear of upsetting their clients .

I think having more reasonable realistic expectations would help to avoid unnecessary suffering