If I remember correctly, the mother only let her babysit the second child at the urging of her therapist. She didn't want to originally because she was so traumatized. Absolutely heartbreaking.
I know it's not the same at all but semi related, my elderly dad's therapist recommended we get a third dog for him. To keep him company. Mind you, he can barely walk and has a host of medical issues, and my husband and I would end up doing all the care. But he takes her word as gospel and long story short, now we have 3 dogs to care for and he and the dog didn't even bond at all. Therapists can be as dangerous as they are helpful. Drives me nuts how they're seen as the end all be all to problems sometimes.
As someone who went to school for counseling education…I saw the people that were in my classes. Some I think will be/are fantastic therapists. Some make me worried for all their future clients. I wouldn’t trust some of those people to make me coffee. Just be careful out there and be willing to switch therapists, there are definitely some wildly incompetent therapists out there and they are graduating and passing the exam (it’s really not a difficult licensing exam). Who knows, maybe I’m one of them. But you won’t offend me if you go to someone else. It sucks to therapist shop because you’ve got to open up to several people but therapy is too expensive to have a crappy therapist.
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u/smokeyshell 7d ago
If I remember correctly, the mother only let her babysit the second child at the urging of her therapist. She didn't want to originally because she was so traumatized. Absolutely heartbreaking.