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How often are therapists’ feelings of distrust (or policies that are basically about distrust) towards clients actually more about distrust of our own boundaries/capacity to hold? This is probably equally relevant to other helping/holding professions like coaching, teaching, support work, etc.

When therapists distrust clientsSome brief thoughts on trust in therapymedium.com

Sonny Hallett

3 июл., 17:09

My email policy is that folks I work with can email me as much as they want, but there is a limit to how much I can read and respond. A question I often get from other therapists about that is “What if a client emails you all the time?” Or even “How can you trust that clients won’t abuse that?”

Sonny Hallett

3 июл., 17:09

To me, the question isn’t ‘do I trust clients to hold my boundary’ – because they can’t and that’s not reasonable. How can they know what my capacity is in any given week?

Sonny Hallett

3 июл., 17:09

The question is: ‘Do I trust my own ability to only do what feels manageable for me?’ If the answer to handling emails is ‘no’, then I would need a different email policy – but still one that doesn’t put that responsibility to hold my boundaries on anyone else.

Sonny Hallett

3 июл., 17:09

I see many similar discussions in therapy circles that I think are essentially about misplaced trust or distrust. Read the rest of this piece over on my Medium: medium.com/@sonnyhallet...

When therapists distrust clientsSome brief thoughts on trust in therapymedium.com