All professional counselors and psychiatrists take an oath against doing any harm, patient confidentiality or sexually or romantically exploiting their patients who are often vulnerable and are prone to trusting their therapists as they would any doctor. It is taboo to any of these oaths and to do so can result in the forfeit of one's medical license. Obviously Dr Stevens never got the memo or maybe he just chooses to ignore it, which is easy to do when you have lovely innocent girls like the virgin Riley entering your home office..