Is It Okay To Report A Therapist?

[Justmehere]

You have started the process to complain to the board. You followed their recommendation to you to try to work it out with her. It failed. You believe the board should take action and yet you are hesitating on following the process through. She was arrogant, but the board doesn’t usually take action on arrogance. Outright fraud, possibly, but this isn’t that type of situation. I’d be frustrated too, but the board may not be able to intervene. That being said, you started the process and you know the situation the best.

What are your own reasons for hesitating?

 

[recoveringfromptsd]

My last therapist did sort of the same thing, she told me up front she was not trained in trauma and would avoid trauma when it came up (how can you treat a patient unless you treat all of the patient?)

She referred me to life crisis, who runs the abuse shelter, hotline, court companions, etc. and counselling (all free). I did EMDR with life crisis, but my therapist was unprepared when it became overwhelming, she started shooting from the hip, ultimately doing something that violated my trust. From there things went down hill.

I personally think if a client has trauma enough that it comes into therapy, then if the T is not qualified for trauma that the T has a duty to refer that client to someone is is qualified. Not just for trauma therapy but for all therapy.

Having 2 therapists essentially splitting the care is destined to cause problems when trauma is part of a crisis.

 

[ppippi]

You have started the process to complain to the board. You followed their recommendation to you to try to work it out with her. It failed. You believe the board should take action and yet you are hesitating on following the process through. She was arrogant, but the board doesn’t usually take action on arrogance. Outright fraud, possibly, but this isn’t that type of situation. I’d be frustrated too, but the board may not be able to intervene. That being said, you started the process and you know the situation the best.

What are your own reasons for hesitating?

I just want to make sure I'm not being unfair to her

 

[EveHarrington]

It’s not your job to determine fairness.

 

[recoveringfromptsd]

not every therapist is a good fit for the needs of the client, and the ones that are might not be later.
I think it is important to consider that your the one with needs, and should be the one is satisfied with your therapist
And the one who determines where your boundaries are with a therapist the a change is needed.

 

[hithere]

full disclosure about her skillset. I feel like she didn't tell me how limited her trauma therapy skills were from the beginning. After I invested about 6 months of therapy, she told me she's not a trauma therapist and referred m

Is this therapist advertising anywhere and listing "trauma" as one of their areas? If so, yes, please report it!

 

[ppippi]

It’s not your job to determine fairness.

Whose job is it?

 

[Justmehere]

The board is professionally tasked to determine if a violation occurred and if so, what is a fair consequence that the therapist should face.

That being said, we also have our own internal sense of fairness. If you filed the complaint out of disappointment or anger, and you believe now it was an unfair complaint, that happens. You can withdraw it. But if you really believe after assessing all the information and costs in terms of time and heart of going through the process and still want to seek for the board to evaluate what happened, you can continue to go through the process too and they will decide if action should be taken or not to penalize the therapist.