Nothing personal, but, if I went into counseling and met somebody like you..................I'd request another counselor, because I do not think you would be a good one for a male client. MLA confronted me on my arrogance on being an emt and I deserved it. If I'm going to be with people at their worst moments and most vulnerable...I need to park my ego at the door. Can you!!!??
Okay. I may regret this, but....
She's not at work. She has a right to act fucked up and let off steam here if she wants. There are a hell of a lot of messed up counsellors out there, in fact a lot of people go into the business because they are or were messed up. It's called professional boundaries and I don't think we can judge, from what we see of Elle here, what she's like when dealing with a client.
You can't wait until you have no personal issues (as if anybody has
no personal issues anyway) before even starting to practice therapy. Actually I would say that people who are still close to dysfunction make better therapists in some cases, because they can be more empathetic and they're not just proclaiming solutions from on high. Sure there are some clients who aren't a good fit with some therapists, but I don't see Elle having a problem with every man, just a few of them,
ones she's been personally involved with. As a therapist you would never get into a situation of developing a personal friendship with a client on a website like this, that would open the relationship to bad boundaries.