The Abusive Client Nowhere in all of Psychotherapy is there a greater test of a therapist's balance and wisdom than there is in this issue.
Many therapists ask the client to leave their practice.
And yet, there are some very simple guidelines to untangle this painful event. There are two main streams or kinds of verbal attack that clients make against their therapists and possibly a third which we will discuss at the end of this talk. I sense they are left over from feelings I had toward my father but they feel like they are also connected to you. Throw every last negative thing you can find at me. Don't forget to use the tone that exactly matches the feeling.