Susan Rowan
"Susan Rowan" is the pseudonym of an experienced licensed clinical social worker who works with the severely mentally ill in a community mental health center.
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The Slippery Slope
Violating the Ultimate Therapeutic Taboo
I doubt that I would fit many people's image of a therapist who would violate sexual boundaries with a client. Before it happened, I certainly did not fit my own. On the day I first met Cara, I was a well-respected social worker at a venerable psychiatric hospital in the Midwest. I viewed myself as a caring and conscientious professional. Yet, over the course of two years, I progressed from sympathizing with Cara, to over-sympathizing with her, buying her groceries, paying her rent and, finally, sleeping with her. Read More