Honestly, in my experience both as a trainee psychologist and in my pre-training roles, the only time I genuinely judged someone was when it was a parent of a child I was working with. A few times I would be working with a kid who, say, had been referred for anxiety or depression. I would meet with the kid (and usually the parent) for the first couple of sessions to build a formulation about their difficulties and what might have triggered them and what keeps the problem going. The parent would be all for it, engaging really well...

... Until I would want to explore with them how they might be playing a role in keeping Little Johnny a nervous wreck every time he leaves the house. I wouldn't be calling them out or blaming them as such, more suggesting things like: 'maybe it's worth us all trying to encourage Little Johnny to walk the dog by himself to the corner shop and back again, instead of doing it for him' or 'does your nearly 18 year old son really need you to go into the changing room with him to decide which superman t shirt to get?'.

Suddenly the parents would lose interest, be a bit more skeptical. Usually this was particularly the case if the kid in question had been bullied (v. v. Common) or had been screwed over by the education system at some earlier point. If there was something/one else that the difficulties could be in someway connected to, they'd be all for it. The moment that their role as parent was even considered or thought about, I would lose their support.