To Adam, Norman and others,
I am energised by the breadth of opinion generated by Sue's question.
Adam, if I understand you correctly, you seem to have difficulty with
the notion of the ethics of any agency/private practice duality - I
would argue for flexibility.
In the case I mentioned, before I took on the client privately I sought
advice from my two supervisors, one from the agency, who is
psychoanalytic, and the other who supervises my private practice, who is
not. The agency supervisor was uncertain at first, and I think that a
lot of this was down to her theoretical orientation, but eventually it
was agreed that the client's needs came first and that, given the
circumstances under which she had been referred to the agency, the fact
that the client and I had built up a firm therapeutic alliance augured
well for my working with her privately. She also knew that my private
practice supervision was excellent. My private practice supervisor had
no hesitation whatsoever in advising me to take her on.
Perhaps a good point here is that I asked for advice BEFORE I agreed to
take on this client, regardless of what agency had said . I agree with
Adam that one must be clear about boundaries and limits, and also aware
of counter-transferential issues when choosing to do this.
Sue
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