Holding the Line: Clinical Boundaries for Interventionists When Families Pull You In

Matt Brown • 2026-05-12

You've been on the phone for four days with a mother who is terrified, exhausted, and convinced that if she doesn't reach you at 10 p.m., the whole thing will fall apart. You've answered. Every time. It made sense in the moment. But somewhere in that process, you stopped being her interventionist and started becoming part of her coping system — and that shift matters more than most of us are trained to recognize.