My ex therapist is a middle aged pioneer clinician of a new special counseling technique respectfully referred to as The Loser 2 Zero Accelerated Ender Technique.
It’s when a highly skilled and extensively trained therapist with a history of unhealthy behavior and half-assed dysfunctional relationships (which are of course never his own fault) practices various types of therapy on a hand-picked client who has survived a lot of trauma, pretends to care about her and help her, and once she’s all in and feels safe with him, the therapist morphs from being just a regular loser to an utter zero. He emotionally closes off and turns cold to the client and then suddenly abandons her.
The best therapists to offer this complicated cutting edge treatment are the ones who act like good guys but are cowardly pieces of shit. Only they have what it takes to go all the way with the treatment of their client until the client is nearly destroyed. The top performers of this therapy are so dedicated that they go above and beyond the normal course of treatment. They abuse their client on specific days when they know the client is most vulnerable, and they even schedule sessions to occur on days of the year that are particularly meaningful to the client, thus making the effect of their hostile treatment more emotionally devastating. If the holidays are tough for a client, they’ll time it accordingly. But they don’t stop there. These over achievers even drag their own wife or girlfriend, friends and family and attorneys into the process. These guys aren’t therapists, they’re destructive maniacs using the title of therapist as a cover.
The beauty of this genius technique is it doesn’t hurt the therapist who administers it, it only breaks their unlucky client. But that’s okay, because if there’s one idea that practitioners of the Loser 2 Zero Accelerated Ender Technique are irresistibly drawn to, it’s that every single client is expendable.