Would my therapist be able to accept homemade Christmas biscuits?

[christmasluces]

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.

Surely it's up to them what they eat in their own time!
I don't see how any job can decide what you eat at home outside working hours!

I never heard about avoiding home made food before MN so I don't think it's as common as people on here make out.

"Having had therapy myself I think it's a bit weird to give a gift."

I don't. I planned to give my physio something small, but forgot in the end.
In any case, therapists should be used to anything 'weird'. They've probably seen much more strange.

Physio is rather different to talking therapy! I'd give a physio a gift.

Talking therapy involves a complicated emotional transaction.

What were your conclusions? I reckon this would be very interesting. I have regular therapy and have for 18 months. I checked with my therapist’s colleague before buying a gift. I bought a nice bottle of wine. She deserves it after listening to my crap! She accepted it and said it was very kind.

@PandaOrLion I’d looove to read a thesis on gift giving between client and therapist. Is it available anywhere? Happy to swap with any of mine, economics / business / IT based

It’s in my uni library (SPTI). I don’t know if it’s available outside of that though! I really enjoyed doing the research for it, but wrote it with a newborn so I wouldn’t say it’s my best work!

I wouldn't eat them sorry. So many people have poor hygiene. A friend of mine has a very clean house, presents well but she keep letting her dog lick her fingers and then touch food she's preparing. I would never eat anything at hers. She probably thinks I have got an ED because I always say no thanks to everything but I'm just grossed out.

This thread feels like it exposes how many anxious perfectionists are therapists...

I would happily accept and eat them, OP

Mumsnet has opened my eyes to all the hoarders out there, all those who beg for advice as to how to clean and sort the squalor of their homes etc…. And it’s certainly made me think twice about home baked goods 😆

Update:

I made the biscuits and gave them to my therapist after she confirmed she could take them. She seemed delighted and I trust her enough to believe her reaction was genuine. As I was leaving at the end of the session, she said she was about to try one so it would seem she wasn't concerned about catching something from my baking. Glad I went out of my comfort zone to do it 😊

She was delighted that I brought her any biscuits at all, but when she found out they were homemade (as opposed to bought) she said that was even more meaningful

There is us having her analysing it

no just tucked in 😂

brillant!