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A client of yours is working on some anxiety about her local acting job. The client tells you wonderful, funny stories about her life and family. You are fascinated, at times spellbound, by the client’s dramatic way of speaking. She is a pleasure to work with because she is professionally rewarding—she’s making progress in therapy—and personally engaging. Several months later, the client appears on a local news program telling those same stories as part of her one-person show. Within a few months, your now-former client has made it big! You see her now on national talk shows; she even refers to her “shrink” in some of her interviews. You can’t help but feel the urge (as any human being would) to brag to your friends that you’re the “shrink” and that you helped her work through her anxiety to get to where she is today.

Explore your needs, motivations, and values: Why do you want to tell others? What need might telling others meet? To feel powerful, important? To impress your friends? To become, perhaps, a bit of a celebrity yourself? What values come to mind as you explore the urge to share this little bit of information? Keep exploring and speculating until you gain some new insights into your needs, motivations, and values. What might be there? What are the new insights and how do/might they influence your understanding of your core and your professional/ethical identity?