Maybe think of giving the client a ticket as part of her therapy. Someone being happy should help some at least. You don't have to cozy up to her or go out to discuss it and it doesn't make you friends, and that part is sad, but I understand where you are coming from.
When I did financial counseling, which I understand is a whole different ballgame from what you are doing, we were never able to talk about any client and even though a politician shared some things that would have blown his political career wide open I was never able to talk about it or report him--luckily he got caught without my help soon after that. I lost a lot of sleep over that one as well as others for different reasons, especially the elderly woman losing her house 1 month before it was paid off after her husband passed, which I was finally able to stop.
It got sticky when my daughter invited the new guy she was dating home and he and I both realized he was a client when she introduced us but neither ever let on. Luckily he had come to learn what he needed to do to buy a house within a year so he wouldn't have cared if anyone knew, but it did make the mother in me come out and wonder if I could sanction her dating some of the people that I saw that were in dangerous situations knowing it might could get serious and not saying anything.
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