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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it can be helpful but does anyone also acknowledge that you are paying someone's salary to talk to them? Meaning, if you are doing something "bad", sure they will talk to you all day and make it seem okay as long as your paying![/quote]

I'm the therapist from above. It's interesting to me that you frame therapy as paying someone to engage with you. You see it differently than going to a doctor or a dentist. Do you often feel as though you have to pressure or bribe people into engaging with you? Is that something you're insecure about? [/quote]

Classic no-responsibility response by a therapist. Yes, turn a valid critique into a personal attack on the questioner. Very productive![/quote]

NP. Except that it’s not a “valid critique “ . No trained therapist that I know — and I know quite a few” will “make it seem okay as long as you’re paying”.  Not one.  Since the initial premise is deeply flawed, any criticism that accepts and follows from that premise is also deeply flawed.

Yes, you’re paying someone’s salary to talk to them. That’s also true of lawyers and other knowledge based professionals.  I have no idea what the OP means by “bad” or “make it seem okay” — but that’s not what therapy is like. [/quote]

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