Can your therapist tell if you have a crush on them?
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Can your therapist tell if you have a crush on them?
Acknowledge Your Feelings Falling in love with your therapist may be more common than you realize. Your therapist should be able to help you explore these feelings and you will likely grow through this process and learn from it. Your therapist may even already know that you have feelings for them.
How do you get over a crush on a therapist?
What To Do If You’re Attracted To Your Therapist
- Know that your feelings are normal.
- Know that these feelings can actually contribute to your healing process.
- Know that it’s just a feeling.
- Recognize that these feelings will not move toward any kind of romantic relationship.
Can a therapist have a crush on a client?
A feeling of trust develops and clients often like their therapist. The therapist may well like you too, but that does not mean that they are crushing on you or want anything other than a professional realtionship. Do not confisue the intamacy of the therapeutic relationship with the therapist having a crush on you.
Does your therapist Like you Too?
Yet the relationship between therapist and client can be warm, safe and close. A feeling of trust develops and clients often like their therapist. The therapist may well like you too, but that does not mean that they are crushing on you or want anything other than a professional realtionship.
Why do some therapists have romantic feelings for their clients?
That is one reason why therapists need therapists and/or supervision. It’s not unusual for people in therapy to develop a romantic/erotic attraction to their therapist. Because the therapist isn’t really whom they have these feelings for (they don’t get to know them nearly well enough for that), the phenomenon is called transference.
Do you have any idea if your therapist is attracted to you?
You have no idea. That is one reason why therapists need therapists and/or supervision. It’s not unusual for people in therapy to develop a romantic/erotic attraction to their therapist.