My friend wants to see my T. - jealous

I talked to her tonight and I'm pretty sure she's decided to find another T. She completely understands. Thanks for all your insight and advice. I'm still going to mention it Thursday.

I saw my friend's hypnotherapist (she was a psychologist who did hypnotherapy, but we both saw her for hypnotherapy) for a while because I saw hypnotherapy as being very scary and I wanted a T I knew I could trust. However I never mentioned her besides the whole "I want to see YOU because x has had good experiences with you" thingy. I do know my friend went to see her again for regular therapy for a while, when I was still seeing her for hypnotherapy. However hypnotherapy being hypnotherapy, T&I didn't talk about my friend and, hypnotherapy being hypnotherapy, I didn't feel the same attachment to the T as to cause "jealousy" issues.

I was also in the same situation at the beginning of the year but luckily my friend decided against therapy in the end. I would be really annoyed and jealous if any of my friends saw my T because I see her as mine. Like, she's my T and no one else's. I also realise that a lot of other students see her and I happen to know some of them, but they are not close to me and didn't want to see her because I mentioned how great she was, so I can live with this a little easier.

Plus, I don't feel like it's appropriate for a T to see two people who are close to each other unless it's family/couple counselling because she'll no longer be able to function as a blank slate for either one. There will be some subjectivity and bias once she hears about a client from another's POV, and I'm sure friends will mention each other at some point during therapy.

Maybe your. T could give some suggestions about alternative T's your friend could see who would be good but ... not your T

I would not like anyone that I know seeing my T either. My own sister wanted to see my T and I had to refuse. Also I would not want to know what is said between that person and T. I don't feel like you should have to share a T when there are so many other T out there.

Well, it's a mute point! I talked to my T. today. She would see friends if she didn't have any kind of connection to them outside of her job. I told her that I couldn't hear about the sessions because I would be jealous. She totally understood and said she's not taking new clients anyway. It's such a small town with not many T's and she has a good reputation. Luckily, my friend completely understood and isn't going to call her. Thanks for all the replies!