12:17 pm.

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So what's next?

First thing, there is always a possibility that the therapist no longer uses the email address I used when throwing back the hot potato (posting my victim statement). In which case the therapist would not have received it.

I suppose it would make sense to send a paper copy? The purpose is to make the therapist fully aware of the nature of my complaint.

I have tried to explain it to him before. Whilst, I was stuck in the emotional quagmire. 

It took me a whole weekend to write the statement, and three years of blogging 

And he had the transcripts, plus recordings of the sessions - Jan 3rd and Feb 24th (posted through his door) earlier this year. Obviously things are not ok. But the communication was emotional, and he didn't seem to treat emotion as valid communication during sessions, I  made sure not to show much because the risk of having it interpreted as a Child ego state - therefore all about the past - looks to me like a convenient way to avoid the present.

Must admit if I was the therapist I would have copied some of the transcript into Google to see if the l33t hacker toad lady (me, and I am certainly not elite. xhtml is my limit) had posted it online - which of course I have. 

I had told him that the whole thing would be freeware (CC).

Do I believe that the therapist is aware that I  think that he allowed his personal narrative to contaminate the session, and that this proved harmful to me specifically because of the dynamic it created?

Only if he has read this blog.

I don't think he'd ever heard of Fanita English, except for the one time I mentioned her. So I don't suppose he would understand or accept her metaphor.

Regardless.

It is obvious that I don't think that he understood how fragile I was, and that I think there was enough information within the words I used,  for him to have understood that I needed him to be a therapist. 

My judgement is, a therapist who can't safely explore the narratives within emotion, is dangerous.

Unless I have evidence that the therapist has taken my evidence seriously, I will continue to assume that he is unaware of the harm his moralising can do.

So back to the question - What's next? 

I will contact his ethical body using my l33t hacker encrypted email address.

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