You don’t understand psychotherapy and depth psychology.
I am not disagreeing with you. However, they said this was COUPLES THERAPY, so it is a fair guess that they were having problems, and as you and I know, a woman not being intimate with her spouse is a frequent reason for therapy. And an old story about her high school days could he trotted out. Whether real or imagined or “brought up.” This incident is a nothingburger compared to someone who suffered serious sex abuse, so she is grasping at straws. Are we still allowed to grasp at them?
Sorry for the negative statement... This topic is very important to me for many reasons, including being the receiving end of false accusations by women with bipolar disorder. I’ve been researching and lecturing at conferences on this topic for many years. Bad therapists really get under my skin and I have cost several of them their careers.
Memory research is the focus of my neuroscience research and I have a degree in psychology. I’m retired but occasionally work as a forensic litigation consultant
Here is an excellent Ted Talk by Elizabeth Loftus. The leading expert on “conflabulated” memory.
https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_loftus_the_fiction_of_memory?language=en&utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare