What are some signs that a therapist may have poor boundaries with their clients?

These items can happen fleetingly, briefly, in any therapy, but if they’re frequent, it’s definitely time for the therapist to get some good, solid supervision/consultation.

Routinely going over the time limit with certain patients, compromising the time for the next client.

Session-expressed curiosities about client details not relevant to the therapy.

Do you believe that the portrayal of smoking in films and music videos contributes to the glamorization of cigarettes in society?

General Introduction to Boundaries from Panahi Counseling:

Off the top of my ancient head:

Serious disappointment when the client cancels a session.

Are there legal obligations to report the known whereabouts of a missing person that doesn’t want to be found?

Eager anticipation (or anxious anticipation) of the next session in ways that distract.

Obsessing about clients outside of work hours.

Frequent phoning or texting of clients to “check up on them and make sure they’re OK.”

What is the reasoning behind conspiracy theorists claiming that there were multiple shooters involved in the JFK assassination?

Disclosing feelings, fantasies, and experiences to the client in ways not related to the work the client is engaged in.

Failing to mention the client in supervision/consultation, out of fear the supervisor/consultant will advise return to ordinary healthy boundaries.

Struggling with fantasies of deeper connections with clients, whether sexual or parental or other intense or intimate relationships beyond psychotherapy.

Why am I not attracted to masculine men? Why do I like more feminine attributes on a man?

Sense of competition with persons who are important in the client’s life.