Counsellors have an ethical responsibility to keep our client’s emotional health safe. In the Canadian Counselling Psychotherapy Association (CCPA) standards manual (2015) it states that counsellors have an “ethical prohibition” against sexual intimacies with clients.
Bottom line, the client-counsellor relationship should never be sexualized.
Mental health professionals are even directed not to counsel someone they have had any previous relationship with.
When seeking counselling, we are emotionally vulnerable. This should be a space where you can focus specifically on YOUR needs, not butterflies of seeing your therapist.
I am not judging anyone who gets a crush on their counsellor. Counsellors, though, know that there are many rules around getting romantic with a client.
Even so, an experience like this could be very harmful for a client.
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