I had some counselling for overwhelm and general weight of my career. In the first session I explained how I was struggling to keep up with the demands of work plus family plus meno and that my boundaries around email and messaging had lapsed. It was all getting on top of me.
During the discussions she told me about her daughter who had just graduated and that she was looking for a job and how she could help me with some of the things I had on my plate.
I left the session a bit lighter, her questions were not hugely insightful but it was an opportunity to talk.
She followed up the session with a WhatsApp message about her daughter and that I should let her know if I am interested in her help.
I appreciate it probably came from a good place but I found it incredibly unprofessional. I didn’t want to talk about her daughter, I was paying her £120ph for her to listen to me.
I came away with just another thing I had to deal with, on top of everything else.
YANBU she overstepped the line here.
YABU this is fine, she was just trying to help