Trauma can make us think really strange things.
Ever since my ex therapist had two awful sessions with me and suddenly ended my therapy in what I feel was an emotionally abusive manner, and then the counseling firm he worked with banded together to threaten me and I also learned that many of the therapists there are lovers, I’ve had the ick about them.
I picture them getting high and having orgies and talking badly about their clients. That’s the vibe I have from them. It makes me very uncomfortable how I got the feeling from my interactions with them at Calmed Counseling that they don’t have personal or professional boundaries with each other.
Now after that series of icky interactions, I feel like I have to recommend that clients deep dive before choosing a therapist. I think as clients we should get to know what conflict of interests a potential therapist has, aside from his or her personal biases which they often bring into our sessions—are they mixing work and personal relations and work and friend and family relations together too much? If they do blur many aspects of their lives together it might indicate that they will blur your therapy with other things too.
I feel very uncomfortable with that concept, and while I’m not saying the therapists at Calmed Counseling and Consulting have orgies (I’m sure that’s my personal response to the trauma I feel like I have from them) I am saying that the way I’ve seen and heard them interact with each other and with me as a client and now as an ex client, has left me feeling extremely uncomfortable.