Yes, this happens too. Dependence not on the therapist, but on the process of psychological professional contact itself. Thoughts about self-improvement, mandatory recovery, ways of self-actualization or a magical means of building relationships. Dependence on psychotherapy can be classified as an emotional addiction. And for any psychologist, the most valuable thing is not that the client regularly goes to consultations for years, achieves heights and creates a parallel financial flow for the psychologist. It is important for a professional psychologist to help quickly, efficiently and recruit new clients, with zero progress. I am honored when a client, after completing a course of consultations, comes out with a sparkle in his eyes, with confidence not only in himself, but also in the effectiveness of his own life. Over time, requests for corrective consultation are received. This is akin to a ship that has learned to sail entering a familiar pier, checking the course of the lighthouse. And the depth of reflection at such moments of meetings for both the client and the psychologist reaches its apogee. The boundaries of resources are expanded and scientific facts prove the client’s level of competence in questions that he has learned not only to pose, but also to find answers to. Those clients are dependent on therapy. who have experienced trauma (of any kind), been in a codependent relationship and overcome the gap through a familiar pattern of behavior (hear me, I don’t exist without you, just speak, I will do everything your way and much more). In the Western world (this is, of course, just my superficial observations), a psychologist and psychotherapist is socially protected from instability in the flow of clients by state guarantees: Thus, under social insurance, any family with problems undergoes therapy, paid for under the policy; parents of children can use the service of visiting a psychologist for the state ( insurance account), people with psychoneurological diagnoses, clients of crisis centers, pensioners. A psychologist stands guard over the mental health of the population in our country, but for some reason not all people know their rights in terms of government consultations. In this case, dependence on therapy is revised through psychoprophylaxis, and this is very important and useful. Time and investment in your mental health means a happy future and a bright present. Do you have therapy-dependent clients? psychologist, psychosomatologist, Yakovenko GalinaViber, WhatsApp 89271287007