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When professional partners have conflicting approaches to core practice standards

My business partner and I are both therapists but we have completely different philosophies about boundaries with clients, and it's creating tension in how we run our practice. She thinks I'm too rigid and I think she's too loose, and we're starting to undermine each other instead of figuring out how to work together.

Juana
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Two professionals sharing a practice are discovering their different interpretations of professional standards are creating operational conflict.

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