So You Want to Be Your Client’s Friend

Two Therapists Discuss a Clinical Taboo

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“How far is friendship really from that special type of trust, intimacy, and closeness with clients that we call, rather dryly, the therapeutic relationship?”

Watch Networker senior writer and editor Alicia Muñoz, LPC, and Linda Carroll, LMFT, discuss the desire for closeness and friendship with clients, navigating uncertainty, and the importance of boundaries in a therapeutic relationship.

Alicia’s latest article “I Want to Be My Clients Friend: A Taboo Longing in the Therapy Room” expands on her own desires for friendship, uncertainty, saying goodbye, and more.

Alicia Muñoz

Alicia Muñoz, LPC, is a certified couples therapist, and author of several books, including Stop Overthinking Your Relationship, No More Fighting, and A Year of Us. Over the past 18 years, she’s provided individual, group, and couples therapy in clinical settings, including Bellevue Hospital in New York, NY. Muñoz currently works as a senior writer and editor at Psychotherapy Networker. You can learn more about her at www.aliciamunoz.com.