The danger presented by "therapist" was noted some time ago. I believe that it was around 1950 that Leo Rosten began an article in Look magazine "As therapists are well aware," and saw it appear in print with an unwanted space.

An end-of-line hyphenation can be similarly distracting. About 30 years ago I read in Time magazine an article on disarmament that contained a sentence along the lines

It no longer matters which of the
combatants has the bigger arse-
nal.

In less than a saccade, a vision of sumo wrestlers flashed before my eyes.