TRUST YOUR GUT! I DIDN'T AND SUFFERED SEVERE ABUSE!
I'm rereading my book "Love Bombed By a Harvard Psychologist" In the book I enclosed all the emails back and forth between me and Dr. Richard Geist. I have tried to break free of the therapy practically EVERY WEEK!! But he always lured me back. The first time I tried to break away he told me that his father was in the hospital and had a bad stroke. He begged me to come back to therapy to make him feel better.
That summer I saw another psychologist, Dr. Michael Furstenberg. He warned me that Dr. Geist was stringing me along, and that I was going to end up getting hurt. This sat in the back of my head for a long time. Deep down I knew I was putting my faith in the wrong hands. But it wouldn't be the last time that I did just that to try to get mentally healthy.
I was a people pleaser. So when I met Dr. James Barbaria I allowed him to use my sessions that I paid for to talk about his own problems. Not only that but he sexually abused me as well, with the help of Dr. Geist supporting him!!!!! They both told me that I was responsible for having sex with Dr. Barbaria!!!
Now I trust my gut. And my gut tells me to NEVER trust another therapist! It's not just men either! I was kicked out of therapy by a female therapist after she told me, quoting her "You got too much on your plate"