Friendship after therapy

Good God No!!! My Pdoc works with individuals it just wouldn't be safe to consider friendships with....And I definitely wouldn't want to be friends with him. I would always feel like he was 'working'.

I would like it, because I genuinely like her as a person. With her huge, monumental boundaries, I doubt she would allow a friendship. I know to hear that from her would cause heartache so I am not about to ask.

i would not want to be friends with my T. i don’t need to see all her crazy. i like our relationship always to be T-client.

I think I will always have some contact with T. Theres no way the work we've done together will just end with a "thanks be seeing ya"
Im not expecting dates out. But I think email updates and occasional meeting in a sort of catch up session wounds be in the cards.
She is that 1 person in my life that fills that m(other) role.
No one has ever done that. We've spoken about the future. I think we are both aware our relationship won't end completely.

I do have a long term t who I saw for decades. In the past couple of years we have kept contact but therapy has ended. He will always play a therapist role for me.

Current t is so different than my past t’s. Part of it is we are closer in age. I’m not emotionally vulnerable like I was in the first years of therapy so I don’t feel the same power imbalance that therapy usually has. On occasion he feels like a helpful older brother but he isn’t the towering authority figure other t’s have been. And I do feel like I know him as a person because he discloses as much as I ask and that’s a fair amount

I like what stopdog said that it isn’t magical. I’m sure a regular friendship would be much less emotionally intense and more mundane. And probably more infrequent than I get of his time now. I’m hopeful but keeping it in perspective. I’d only want to be friends if he wanted it too.

My T would never allow it. She was not altogether comfortable with my having email contact with a former T from 25 years ago.

I would like to be friends with her although I'd see her a lot less often. We have a similar sense of humor and of ethics so I think we'd get on well. She said once that if we'd met under different circumstances we might have been friends and that's the best I'm ever going to get.

Were you already friends with the first therapist before you went to therapy, or did the friendship develop during and/or after therapy?