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# Coaching closeness

## [The Quandary of Closeness And Compassion in Coaching](https://realbalance.com/the-quandary-of-closeness-and-compassion-in-coaching)

![distant couple](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/distant-couple.jpg)

***“Don’t get too close to your clients.”*** It may have been my junior year of being an undergraduate psychology major when a professor offhandedly gave this warning to me and a couple of other students. There is always this question about ‘therapeutic distance’. Clearly when a therapist allows their own feelings of attraction or repulsion, insensitivity or caring to interfere…

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