BaldridgePoss806
I have seen with delight the way that religion, when properly practised, helps people live a contented, healthy, and fulfilled life. But we are all aware of people who did something totally unholy using their religion; those we call fanatics, those who belong to shady cults, and so forth. Indeed one of the main reasons people dislike religious cults is that often, their leaders victimize the vulnerable, whose lives get destroyed in the process, as documented within the press over the last few decades.
So, would you be pleased to send a vulnerable person to this type of fanatic? Would you trust a religious fanatic with matters of your mind?
Of course, we have to first define this is of fanatic. There's a huge difference from a professional therapist who's a pious god-loving person and somebody that twists religion to justify their judgement of others. When this is a psychotherapist, psychiatrist, or counsellor, it can be scary. A mental health worker can't be fanatical about anything whilst undertaking the work they do. Therapy is exist for the client find their very own solutions (not imposed solutions that suit the therapist), and come to some host to peace. Plus some would state that surely if a mental health worker were properly trained, they'd know to keep their opinions and emotions out of the therapy. And that is exactly the ideal.
I had been helping a vulnerable and suicidal client who had been also seeing a counsellor. I called the counsellor from time to time to make sure i was enhancing the client within the most effective way as a team. This very vulnerable and suicidal client had the utmost trust in the counsellor. However, I wasn't happy concerning the way the counsellor seemed to be making the customer have shame and feel inferior. I figured surely this is not the therapist's doing, so I known as the counsellor in order to see how we together can help the customer feel proud of herself rather than ashamed, still not believing the counsellor was the reason. As it turns out the counsellor would be a religious fanatic who strongly disapproved from the client and looked down on the client. So, somehow, my client had grasped that. So aside from attempting to placate the counsellor, there is nothing I possibly could do. Sadly, the client's parents pulled the customer off my program, because counselling is much more accepted and known that EFT, which I was helping the client with, and also the client remains abused by their psychotherapist in insidious ways, as far as I understand. So long as this continues, I cannot see the client recovering.
One solution that I can think of is the fact that mind workers ought to be transparent and declare their beliefs within their literature and before the client sees them for the first time. Then the client can make an informed decision. The therapist can also in that way not have to be triggered by clients whose biology, genetic make-up, or opinions, are opposed to the therapist's beliefs.
