Above all, Do no Harm!
No one becomes a therapist, especially a couple and family therapist, to hurt their clients! Most anyone who goes through all the work and expense of becoming a therapist, and the ADDED expense and extensive time it takes in training to become a good couple and family therapist, is not out to hurt their clients! We got into this field to do good, to help individuals, couples and families, and to make a difference in some kind of way for the betterment of the world. By and large in our field we work very hard to be the best we can be and to really help others. It's in our natures to want good things for others, it's part of who we are, and it's part of what drives us to be in the helping profession. Yet, we all know of horror stories where sexual boundaries are crossed, inappropriate behaviors on the part of therapists happen, and reports of things that just seem so unbelievable to us that happened between a client and a therapist. How do therapists, who start out with ...