[ShrinkPatient]

Are you Facebook friends with your T or perhaps following one another on a different social website.
Have you ever talked about it.

[gayleggg]

I am Facebook friends with a therapist I used to see. I saw her for many years and she saved me from myself a time or two. I wish I could still see her but I moved too far away.

[ShrinkPatient]

Originally Posted by gayleggg

I am Facebook friends with a therapist I used to see. I saw her for many years and she saved me from myself a time or two. I wish I could still see her but I moved too far away.

Were you FB friends when you were doing therapy together?

No, My T doesn't use facebook even if she did I don't think I would friend her it would be very unhealthy for me.

[anilam]

I don't even know whether he has FB... never checked. I'm not interested in his personal life.

[RTerroni]

I wouldn't mind it but they would have to send me a request first.

[Daeva]

My T has a FB, because she is friends with my advisor (As obviously I am) so often times we'll comment on the same posts on the advisors wall, or whatev but I know the boundaries and we leave each other alone on FB

[BlessedRhiannon]

My T doesn't have a FB account. Even if she did, I probably wouldn't "friend" her...it would feel too weird for me. My pdoc does have a FB account, but I have no desire to be FB friends with him.

[stopdog]

I don't know if the therapist has a facebook account or not. I don't.

[wheeler]

My T and I have discussed the possibility of becoming FB friends, but for the moment I'm not sure I could handle it. She would be willing but she said it's up to me. Maybe in time. I've been seeing her for almost 4 years.

[RTerroni]

Originally Posted by BlessedRhiannon

My T doesn't have a FB account. Even if she did, I probably wouldn't "friend" her...it would feel too weird for me. My pdoc does have a FB account, but I have no desire to be FB with him.

Just because she says that doesn't necessarily make it true, I found that out with a former Group Therapist of mine.

[archipelago]

I took down my FB account. People at school said we should minimize our "digital footprint" and I really didn't use it much. When I had one I saw my shrink had one too, but it was private so I didn't ever mention it. He shares enough with me already that I want to leave his life to himself. He works hard enough as it is.

[ready2makenice]

I am constantly deactivating my social media accounts,but I do know that my T has a FB account,I would never add my T to something so personal as my FB. I don't even think I'd even add her after years of T is over.

I don't see the need to,nor do I have the desire to.

We are following each other on pinterest. FB and Twitter are a different story. *off limits*

[ShrinkPatient]

I am not FB friends with my T either. I feel like it would put her at risk and complicate my therapy. If I started to post depressing things and she didn't notice, perhaps she could be held accountable if I ever had a serious breakdown. I don't know for sure but it's not worth the risk. Also, people have known me and my humor for years often misinterpret some of my posts and if she did that and brought them up in session I feel like it would only complicate things.
In theory, I might be willing to become FB friends with her after I've finished therapy but I'm not sure.

[RTerroni]

I am starting to think that it might not be the best thing to friend my Therapist (once I get another one and I am pretty sure that I will be) on Facebook considering all of the political things that I post on there. My prior Therapist obviously didn't know what my political views were when she incorrectly tried to guess who I was supporting in the last Presidential Election.

[A Red Panda]

If my T wanted to add me to FB I'd say sure. I don't post anything really personal on it because I have family and aquaintances on there, so it isn't anything personal. And it wouldn't really make a difference to me what he posts or doesn't post if he even has fb - although I would enjoy seeing photos of his little girl!

[Lauliza]

Never. Social media is a very gray area in therapy (and other professions, like teaching) and there's just too much room for error. I've already thought about what I'd do when I'm licensed since I know it comes up. I'd keep my account on lock down for the most part and wouldn't befriend clients. My former T told me one of her other clients friend requested her and it freaked her out! She didn't want to hurt her feelings but instinctively knew not to allow it.

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[RTerroni]

Originally Posted by amee200

Never. Social media is a very gray area in therapy (and other professions, like ) and there's just too much room for error. I've already thought about what I'd do when I'm licensed since I know it comes up. I'd keep my account on lock down for the most part and wouldn't befriend clients. My former T told me one of her other clients friend requested her and it freaked her out! She didn't want to hurt her feelings but instinctively knew not to allow it.

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Honestly if it freaks them out that much than they probably aren't cut out for Therapy (I'm not saying that they should accept the request it just shouldn't completely freak them out).

I don't think my T has a FB account but I don't actually know. In any case, if for some reason I did find out that he has an account I would not ask to friend him, and it would be out of character for him to send a request to me. I don't accept friend requests from students either, not until they are no longer my students. I do keep track of which groups of friends my FB posts are visible to, but still.

[CantExplain]

Originally Posted by ShrinkPatient

Are you Facebook friends with your T or perhaps following one another on a different social website.
Have you ever talked about it.

I don't think any of my past or present Ts would allow that.

No and I don't think I would. But I am connected to a past therapist via LinkedIn. I can't really write her a rec because I use it for work too much but I have been able to refer people to her that way.

[healed84]

Nope.. and it wouldn't be right. We do have mutual friends though, and his face pops up when I am on friend's pages, etc.. his page is pretty locked down. He is also on twitter and I have looked at his twitter feed before, but I don't formally follow him. His practice has a twitter and fb page and I follow those.

[Lauliza]

Originally Posted by RTerroni

Honestly if it freaks them out that much than they probably aren't cut out for Therapy (I'm not saying that they should accept the request it just shouldn't completely freak them out).

No, she is a great T, definitely cut out for it. More likely at that point just not that Facebook savvy - she didn't know how her patient found her...unless she came up as "someone you may know" which was unlikely, her patient must have looked her up. Her name is common so it took some effort. I'd be put off if someone I had a very distant online/personal contact with contacted me. There's something very voyeuristic about Facebook that can be a little weird if you don't set a lot of privacy controls, which I do without even being a T.

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[RTerroni]

I have also mentioned this before but you may think that your Therapist is not on Facebook but they may be on there using a fake last name as is the case with a friend of mine who is a High School teacher, this way no one is able to find them who they don't want to.

[kittlies]

Just had my last session with an amazing T. She was doing her internship at the free clinic and is on to her next internship at another clinic I can't go to. I wish I had asked her about fb, she is the sort of person I would be friends with in RL!