@the_mel_jar could disagree more, if one is using their feelings stirred up in the session as yet one additional way to focus on the patient and the expectable, repeated, cyclical interpersonal dynamics they are (likely) struggling with.
@DavidPuder Id love to hear more about how the therapeutic contract esp re: extratherapy contact is introduced and more importantly handled when inevitable contact / pressures happen outside of the frame. Ex. pts in crisis calling outside of sessions.