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‘A therapist shouldn’t be giving you hugs’: readers share bad counselling experiences

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62% Informative

More than 100 people got in touch with the Guardian after it reported that experts were calling for all psychotherapists in England to be regulated.

Readers shared their concerns about the psychotherapist, counsellors and psychologists they felt had given bad or harmful advice.

One mother-of-one was shocked to learn that her son had been advised to come off his antipsychotic medication without consulting a psychiatrist.

She considered filing a complaint but felt she didn’t have “the mental capacity to deal with it”. She now feels “wary” of returning to therapy. All names except Karin Blak’s have been changed..

VR Score

63

Informative language

61

Neutral language

67

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

50

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

medium-lived

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