mountaindew24, my T said "Family never 'gets' therapy." and I think your Dad doesn't 'get' it like you do because it is your therapy and about you.

His comments about therapists doing what they do just for money is pretty silly, isn't it?

I hope you talk with T about your Dad's feelings about therapy. You might want to consider not sharing with him about therapy since he has a willingness to attempt discredit it.

I think your T sounds great! I've never seen my T in public but I would imagine it would go like that too. It would be too awkward for both of us I think, to try to acknowledge one another. However each T decides what works best for them as far as acknowledging their patients in social / community settings. So, she explained what her boundary is about that and now you can understand it, that it wasn't about you but about her feelings about seeing her patients out in public.