{"id":7482,"date":"2025-02-20T10:46:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T10:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/bad-therapists-are-out-there-heres-how-to-handle-them\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T10:46:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T10:46:54","slug":"bad-therapists-are-out-there-heres-how-to-handle-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/bad-therapists-are-out-there-heres-how-to-handle-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Therapists Are Out There. Here\u2019s How to Handle Them."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In her first session with a new therapist in San Diego, Elise, 37, immediately felt turned off. Not because of anything the therapist said, but because of the fact that she was riding a stationary bike during their conversation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Maria Danna, 35, was alarmed when her therapist in Portland, Ore., \u201cvigorously shook a maraca at my face\u201d in order to \u201cpick up the energy I was giving off in session.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And Carson, who sought help from a psychiatrist in Ohio for severe postpartum depression and anxiety, felt troubled when the doctor sent her thousands of text messages and eventually revealed his sexual feelings for her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Therapy is transformative for many people, regardless of whether they have a mental illness. But what do you do if your therapist is unprofessional, inept or even abusive?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Last year, The New York Times asked readers whether they had ever had a bad experience with a therapist, and we received more than 2,700 responses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Among them were examples of ethical violations, unprofessional behavior and interactions that were simply bizarre. (Some readers who shared their stories asked to be referred to only by their first names to protect their privacy.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It\u2019s difficult to know how often these types of incidents occur. No federal agency regulates psychotherapy. And although state licensing boards are supposed to hold therapists accountable, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/utah-therapist-built-reputation-for-helping-gay-latter-day-saints-they-say-he-sexually-abused-them\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the process can be flawed<\/a>, and there is <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.opencounseling.com\/filing-a-complaint-against-a-therapist\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a high bar<\/a> for disciplinary action<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<blockquote class=\"css-h06x8x\">\n<h2 class=\"css-1b2vmys e38szfw0\">\u201cI was in the middle of explaining that I felt invisible in my family,\u201d wrote Melissa Petty, 71, of an incident that happened more than a decade ago in Dallas. \u201cI looked up and the therapist was asleep! I found a new therapist immediately.\u201d<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere\u2019s a bit of a joke in the field that every graduate cohort has at least one to two students that everyone else has serious doubts or concerns about,\u201d said Eric Jones, a therapist in Santa Ana, Calif. \u201cWe are ethically obligated to gate-keep the bad ones from licensure, but it\u2019s not a perfect system. I\u2019ve fired or reported several myself for problematic conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While in Dr. Jones\u2019s experience the good therapists far outnumber the bad, he and other experts urge patients to trust their gut if something seems off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Jonathan E. Alpert, chair of the department of psychiatry at Montefiore Einstein in New York, says the therapist\u2019s \u201cNorth Star\u201d should be a patient\u2019s or client\u2019s health and continued growth. If it isn\u2019t, he added, then \u201csomething is wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-1u37br4 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-348180b\">When a Therapist Gets Too Close<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Therapists are supposed to maintain physical and emotional boundaries with clients. Violating those boundaries might look like regularly disclosing intimate personal details; touching a client inappropriately; flirting; offering gifts; or trying to establish a social relationship outside of the office.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">If a therapist is flouting professional boundaries and you\u2019re unsure of what to do, one place to find support is the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.therapyabuse.org\/index.htm\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Therapy Exploitation Link Line<\/a>, or TELL, a peer support network that helps those who have been harmed by therapists or who are concerned about their therapist\u2019s behavior.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Deborah A. Lott volunteers at TELL, offering guidance that she would have appreciated back in the \u201980s. At the time, she was 28 and had sex with her therapist, whom she said had offered her both wine and cannabis. He begged her to come back to therapy. She did, temporarily, before finally cutting off contact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cOnce you\u2019re emotionally dependent, it\u2019s very hard to get out, even if you know that things are not going right,\u201d Ms. Lott said. \u201cThis person has all your secrets. You\u2019ve invested time, money, energy. And they\u2019re telling you that it\u2019s your problem. There\u2019s a lot of gaslighting that goes on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">What she now knows is that an ethical therapist would never have a sexual or an emotional affair with a patient.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe patient could be naked and begging for sex,\u201d said Jan Wohlberg, a founder of TELL, and \u201cit is <em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">always<\/em> the responsibility of the therapist to set and maintain safe and therapeutic boundaries.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-1u37br4 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-7f84bdac\">When a Therapist Abandons Professionalism<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A number of readers who wrote in described therapists who were chronically late, ate during a session, failed to inform them of fees, missed appointments or ghosted them. And more than 130 people said their therapist fell asleep during therapy \u2014 sometimes going so far as to start drooling or snoring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI was in the middle of explaining that I felt invisible in my family,\u201d wrote Melissa Petty, 71, of an incident that happened more than a decade ago in Dallas. \u201cI looked up and the therapist was asleep! I found a new therapist immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some readers shared stories about therapists who provided unnecessary services or trendy treatments that they didn\u2019t seem qualified to offer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Erin, 30, who lives in New York City, said that she was surprised when her therapist instructed her to watch lights dart across a narrow tube. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It\u2019s a type of stimulation used during eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy, or <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/19\/well\/emdr-therapy.html\" title=\"\">E.M.D.R.<\/a>, a treatment that aims to ease the distress surrounding traumatic memories. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Erin was in therapy for pandemic-related anxiety, not trauma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Repeatedly the therapist asked, \u201cIs it working?\u201d Erin recalled, all while their Zoom connection kept cutting out. \u201cIt was a wild, wild experience.\u201d <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-1u37br4 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-3f62f682\">When a Therapist Can\u2019t Be Bothered<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Leah Odette, 44, who lives in Long Beach, Calif., visited a new therapist for help with anxiety and was unexpectedly greeted by a dog. For some clients a pet might be welcome, but not for Ms. Odette.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She explained to her therapist that she had a deep fear of dogs, but Ms. Odette said her concerns were quickly dismissed. \u201cI pretended to calm down and reached down to pet it but it snapped at me,\u201d she said. \u201cThe therapist blamed my anxiety for the dog\u2019s reaction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Other readers said their therapists either didn\u2019t appear to be listening at all or didn\u2019t have anything helpful to say about the experiences they shared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cDuring my last session, the therapist quite literally just stared out the window, not making eye contact with me the entire session,\u201d said Emily, 34, who lives in Pittsburgh. \u201cI ended our relationship via email that evening.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-1u37br4 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-252b2d4f\">When You\u2019re Disappointed in Your Therapist<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">If something untoward has happened or your therapist simply isn\u2019t the right fit, it\u2019s important to find someone new \u2014 it won\u2019t benefit you to stay in a situation that is neither healthy nor productive, said Jessica M. Smedley, a clinical psychologist in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And if you feel as though an ethical boundary has been crossed, you can <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.opencounseling.com\/check-a-therapist-license\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">report your therapist to their licensing board<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There are some situations, however, that might not be so black and white. Say you typically feel safe and supported by your therapist, but there\u2019s one thing that keeps nagging at you: She once fell asleep in session. In that case, you may want to try talking through your concerns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Then take note of how he or she responds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cA therapist who reacts defensively to that or is not able to take in that feedback and change is a therapist that somebody shouldn\u2019t continue working with,\u201d Dr. Alpert said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/20\/well\/mind\/bad-therapists.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her first session with a new therapist in San Diego, Elise, 37, immediately felt turned off. 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