Logo

What are some signs that a therapist may have poor boundaries with their clients?

08.06.2025 00:01

What are some signs that a therapist may have poor boundaries with their clients?

Eager anticipation (or anxious anticipation) of the next session in ways that distract.

Frequent phoning or texting of clients to “check up on them and make sure they’re OK.”

Serious disappointment when the client cancels a session.

Can you describe what it's like to live in a town known for Harley Davidson motorcycles?

General Introduction to Boundaries from Panahi Counseling:

Struggling with fantasies of deeper connections with clients, whether sexual or parental or other intense or intimate relationships beyond psychotherapy.

These items can happen fleetingly, briefly, in any therapy, but if they’re frequent, it’s definitely time for the therapist to get some good, solid supervision/consultation.

What caused the Democratic Party's 2024 presidential campaign to implode so horrifically?

Obsessing about clients outside of work hours.

Session-expressed curiosities about client details not relevant to the therapy.

Disclosing feelings, fantasies, and experiences to the client in ways not related to the work the client is engaged in.

Google’s Pixel 10 phones will reportedly launch on August 13th - The Verge

Off the top of my ancient head:

Routinely going over the time limit with certain patients, compromising the time for the next client.

Failing to mention the client in supervision/consultation, out of fear the supervisor/consultant will advise return to ordinary healthy boundaries.

Did your siblings abuse you growing up? Not your parents, specifically your siblings, or other children in the household you were raised with.

Sense of competition with persons who are important in the client’s life.