The PhD gives you more options, like becoming a professor or opening a private practice. There's plenty you can do with just a master's: research, teaching, and offer psychological evaluation. Choose your degree and career path very carefully. There are also a number of movies where therapists start dating their clients, which is totally unethical! I'd also never share my own problems with a patient or negotiate the doctor-patient boundaries.Ģ. People generally come to me with something they want to work through, and we talk about whatever they're going through and how it's changed since our last session. And we're not looking at inkblots or doing free association for an hour. I do have a couch, but people don't lie down on it. Therapy doesn't look at all like what you see on TV.