Re:Denial

Grievances filed with a licensing board are only as good as the honesty of the therapist responding to the grievance. If a therapist decides to lie to her or his board during a grievance process, the therapist will always be exonerated, because it is the therapist’s word against the client. There are only two witnesses for destructive therapist behavior during a therapy session – the therapist and client.

No board will believe a client’s word over a therapist, at least not in Michigan. Ironically, the therapists who lose their privilege are actually honest, because they will always tell the board truthfully that they have, or may have, harmed the client. The most destructive and dishonest therapists will lie or misrepresent themselves to the board, and become exonerated.

The word denial was used I believe, because therapists are allowing themselves to be in this state, if they fool themselves into believing that clients are truly protected from destructive therapists, and that the system in place truly protects clients form horrible therapists.

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Re:Denial, by Craig Tucker, 10/19/01 Re:Denial, by T.J., 10/19/01 Re:Denial/correcting typos in last post, by Craig Tucker, 10/19/01 Re:Denial/correcting typos in last post, by T. J., 10/19/01 Re:Denial/correcting typos in last post, by Ben, 10/19/01 Re:Denial/correcting typos in last post, by Joe P., 10/19/01 Re:Denial/correcting typos in last post, by , 10/19/01

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