While it may be true that some behavioral healthcare professionals have unresolved recovery needs of their own, it is neither ethical nor professional for a practitioner to use a treatment relationship with a client to work on their own personal issues. Practitioners either need to be sufficiently resolved with regard to their own recovery issues to be able to provide high-quality treatment with healthy professional boundaries, or they should inform their supervisors of the need to transfer such a case to another practitioner who is able to provide this type of care.