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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New poster here. I think OP feels pressure to respond to the grief counselor but doesn’t want to respond to her mom. But in responding to the counselor, she’ll be in contact with her mom again. Look up the term ‘flying monkey’. People with disordered thinking do this a lot. They get another party to contact another on their behalf. A PP wrote here about cultural bias. I don’t think OP is going to ‘win’ with the counselor by explaining her or his situation so I vote to ignore the email. The counselor ought to figure out that the mom is being avoided for very good reasons and not even the OP is obliged to answer to the mom.[/quote]

Any good LICENSED clinician understands these dynamics and would understand she is risking her licensure and reputation by getting sucked in by her patient. NO clinician should be contacting family members unless it is under "duty to warn" that a patient is threatening harm or even to kill that person. The therapist can only tell the client to let the family member know the therapist is open to calls for another perspective.

I don't think this is a real clinician and if it is I don't think this person is qualified.[/quote]

This.

It is very inappropriate for the counselor to contact op.[/quote]

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