25+ Therapists who made their patients quit: 'The TikTok her therapist was watching... started playing on full volume'

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
May 31, 2025 3:00 PM EDT

Finding the right therapist can be surprisingly difficult. When you first start looking, you think to yourself, "How hard could it be to work with a healthcare professional?" But then you realize that not every therapist is good at their job. And some are good at what they do, but you totally do not click with them. Maybe there's a bit of a language barrier. Maybe they seem distracted and hardly listen to you. Others spend way too much time yapping about their own problems, which is not what their patients shell out their hard-earned money for. 

These people shared the red flags that made them quit their therapist ASAP… let's hope they all found better matches. 

Next, read about the people who are having a way worse day than you, like one person who saw someone who "bumped into this guy who was holding 15 milkshakes." 

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  • 01

    "What is something your therapist did that made you fire them?"

    LowKeyGlitch Sat there and stared at me while I talked without ever offering feedback, reflections, or insights.
    via u/LowKeyGlitch
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    LickAD ASaurus She talked way too much about herself and experiences and talked over me when I tried to take back the conversation.
    via u/LickAD***ASaurus
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    sillykathleen Not mine, but my sister was doing a session over Zoom when the TikTok her therapist was watching off screen started playing on full volume.
    via u/sillykathleen
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    p... After a few months of us working together, every time I shared anything with her, she said, "OK, so, you just trauma dumped on me again" always with a tone of exhaustion. But she never gave me alternative options for sharing techniques, and I wasn't really sure why I was in therapy if I wasn't allowed to share things without getting weird pushback.
    via u/petrakat
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    Honestly, she really did help me a lot at first, but then maybe she got tired of me.
    via u/petrakat
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    will_write_for_ta... I live in a very nice neighborhood, which is well known for being an affluent area. After finding out where I lived, my therapist went on for about 15 minutes about how awful the east side of Indianapolis is and how he wouldn't live here in my neighborhood because it's too close to the "bad part of
    via u/will_write_for_tacos
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    town." He was saying stuff like, "Aren't you afraid living there? That can't be good for your anxiety, I'd be a mess all the time." I corrected him and told him I live in Geist, which is actually quite safe and quiet. He brought it up in our next session too, and mentioned that I should move to help with my anxiety levels, that living in a small town or a
    via u/will_write_for_tacos
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    nicer suburb would make me feel safer. Dude was projecting his bulls insecurities about bad neighborhoods like a
    via u/will_write_for_tacos
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    This person would love Zoom therapy

    Anxious_Bluejay Missed an appointment... twice... it was like an hour and fifteen minute bus ride to their office, and it was just... locked. Then I called them, and they said they forgot we rescheduled ... I have never been back to therapy since.
    via u/Anxious_Bluejay
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    That's so wrong

    I_want_pancakes... She told my mom Everything I told her. I was 15 at the time
    via u/I_want_pancakes_123
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    Bitter_Detective_... Not me but my partner. They asked them if they ever had a chance to sleep around in their early twenties. My partner said no and was happily monogamous. Well, the therapist said that essentially, they should break up with me to explore more s ual partners. They were floored. The therapist
    via u/Bitter_Detective_952
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    would not drop the subject, and essentially, my partner had to leave because the therapist would not let go of my partner needing to sleep around. They went to therapy because they wanted help managing job stress... Personally, I've never had a bad experience, thank god.
    via u/Bitter_Detective_952
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    MistressLiliana Scheduled an appointment for me on a holiday when the office wasn't even open then tried to penalize me for no call/no showing.
    via u/MistressLiliana
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    Hungry-Helicopt... She no showed me at 5:01 when my apt was at 5:00. I was waiting in the virtual room for the apt to start to boot. Every single time we met, she would start off by saying I'm her last patient for the week and she cant wait for the work week to be over.
    via u/Hungry-Helicoptor-46
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    I cannot express how badly I was struggling and needed her, or anyone competent to help me. Oh and she charged me a 100$ "no show" fee.
    via u/Hungry-Helicoptor-46
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    ChaoticMaplesyrup Took the side of the employer that I won a claim against when they were assigned to help me with the issues the employer caused after I had already won.
    via u/ChaoticMaplesyrup
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    Flat-Upstairs1278 I went to a therapist for the first time ever. It was fine. For our second appointment I had to reschedule and she said something along the lines of "I know making it to
    via u/Flat-Upstairs1278
  • 19
    your first appointment can be tough". So she didn't remember meeting me. She also called me the wrong name. Not a good first therapy experience.
    via u/Flat-Upstairs1278
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    rroseisland She started talking more about her own problems than mine... like girl I'm paying you to listen to me. Not the other way around
    via u/rroseisland
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    Particular_Owl_8... told me about a guy I work with he was also treating
    via u/Particular_Owl_8029
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    trigunnerd Confused me for another patient twice, asking about my husband's infidelity. Do. you know something I dont??
    via u/trigunnerd
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    Oneonthefence Slept with my (now ex) husband. After making fun of my name. Oh, the paperwork I filed for breach of ethics with THAT situation...
    via u/Oneonthefence
  • 25
    MsGhoul Wrangler She kept a single gold fish in a shallow bowl of water. I mentioned that it has negative effects on the fish to be kept like that, but she brushed it off. I couldn't go back.
    via u/MsGhoul Wrangler
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    coffee-sleep-plz-... Straight up told me "your problem isn't that bad"
    via u/coffee-sleep-plz-91
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    AgeScared8426 Violate privacy ethics. Tell patient's story to another person.
    via u/AgeScared8426
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    mariam67 Could not stay awake. The whole time her head was just nodding down more and more. Then she'd j herself awake and go get a cup of coffee. It didn't help.
    via u/mariam67
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    6ithfret Somehow I brought up that I did not ever want to have children. She proceeded to straight up argue with me about how I was wrong and would "change my mind." After our session, I immediately went home and fired her via email.
    via u/
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    Anyone that knows me knows that I have a vehement desire to never have children. H I, I don't even want to watch them, not even for an hour.
    via u/
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    RadSpatula Quoted Reddit to me. I swear. He gave this big long. spiel about grief and I was like yeah, I read that on Reddit too.
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    Implantexplant Recommended 12 step to me after I specifically said I needed an alternative.
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    EzAeMy Made a "Brokeback Mountain" joke.
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    ThatOne1983 Told me the reason my marriage was failing was me. Nothing my narcissistic ex husband did was wrong. We had only been married six months.
    via u/
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    andronicuspark I told this guy previously about some issues I have with girls/women being seen as less than in the culture I came from. A few sessions later he was cheerfully telling me about how great his men's groups. are and how he wishes he could only work them.
    via u/
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    Also the time he logged on around 3 in the afternoon and started eating a low fat Dannon yogurt on screen.
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    Legion1117 After 6 visits, continued to call my de d husband by the wrong name, then told me to go home, write my "troubles" down on a piece of paper and burn it so I'd feel better. I'm not a teenage girl. I don't subscribe to 21 and I was not having mere "troubles," I had a complete break from
    via u/
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    reality and was looking for follow-up care. I don't seriously think writing stuff down on a piece of paper and burning it will help, lady. I walked out and never went back.
    via u/
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    WWHarleyRider She brought up things that my friend told her about me in their session
    via u/
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    iamsavsavage Tried to sell me DoTerra oils instead of prescribing me actual medicine.
    via u/

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