Would my therapist be able to accept homemade Christmas biscuits?

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I've been seeing a therapist privately for a couple of years and she's a BACP member. I love baking and made a friend some cakes yesterday. It got me thinking... if I made my therapist a small bag of Christmas biscuits or cookies, would she be able to accept them? As a child I gave my teachers at primary school presents each Christmas (thanks to my mum!) but the only Christmas gift I actually remember giving them is the time my mum helped me make peppermint creams for my teacher.
It's in a similar vein that I'm wondering about baking my counsellor something small, just to say that I appreciate all her support and to wish her a happy Christmas.

Thanks for your thoughts everyone. I understand someone may appear well-presented while their home is disorganised, but I can assure you I am hygienic! I don't have pets or children and soap and antibacterial spray are my friends. I think my therapist would know that too, after 2+ of listening to me talk in different contexts. I told her recently that I've just finished a deep clean of my kitchen.

I’d love it!
The therapeutic relationship isn’t like any other and I ended up writing my MSc dissertation on gift giving between client and therapist.

Good for you, but that still doesn't mean she'll eat the biscuits.

DD (16) is seeing a therapist for OCD, and took in some brownies we’d made today. Baking was a mother-daughter activity she recommended. I obviously don’t know if she’ll eat them, but she accepted them with good grace.

There’s more than one thesis in there. If you consider the therapeutic relationship, the meaning gift giving has for both the therapist and the client, the types of gifts the client might chose and why, the therapists boundaries about receiving gifts there’s loads to look at. And that’s before you think about the impact of gift giving (or refusing) on the therapeutic work. Therapy is a relational process if it’s done properly, everything in the relationship is grist for the mill.

Wife of a therapist: husband would be very touched and inhale them at speed!

definitely

be Interesting to discuss also

my friend spent more than 5 sessions of psychoanalysis discussing the bottle of wine she gave her analyst for Xmas!

it’s just you allude to doing it will your mum for a teacher

Lovely thought but I wouldn't eat them.

She will know her very well over two years

So sad people reject the home made - for me it’s similar to not letting kids out to play - the danger has always been the same - and it’s safer than going online!

😂😂😂😂

glad to hear he’s normal! 😂😂😂

I am gobsmacked people are so freaked out by people's hygiene they wouldn't eat a homemade biscuit.

No anxiety about hygiene issues at all. Buy home made cakes and biscuits at church fairs etc all the time, eat with great pleasure, have never got ill in 60 years.

Glad it’s not just me thinking this

plus the home made process with the mother and recreating

therapeutic gold!

So so common on mumsnet, but not at all common in the real world

Also therapeutic gold!

that the product of activity was given to therapist

Personally I would just give her a nice card. While the idea is lovely you don’t know if she is vegan / has any food allergies etc. and accepting gifts is a tricky area for professionals. Some will just have a blanket no while others may accept small food gifts.

Along with being outraged someone rang your doorbell 😂😂

Therapist will not feel uncomfy and happy asserting boundaries

it’s great grist for the mill

Or being a mother in law excited to meet their new grandchild