It has been well over 6 years since keepers filed our complaint against our former therapist with our state licensing board.  In less than two weeks, it will have been eight months since we testified in court against our former therapist.  For our internal bigs and teens and even our littles–it was a red letter day when we sat there and listened to judge find our former therapist GUILTY on five counts in our case against him.  He was found guilty of gross neglect in his acting as our therapist of record.  He was found guilty of establishing inappropriate boundaries in our therapeutic situation.  He was found guilty of  continually being counterproductive in our therapy (this means that in the 17 years he was our therapist of record) he did nothing but harm keepers.  I do not remember the actual legal term for this but he was also found guilty of sabotaging keepers healing and making every effort he could to keep keepers sick.  The fifth count on which they found him guilty is not one keepers really understand so all we can say is the our former therapist was convicted of charges of non professional behaviors in his treatment of us.  To be honest, it felt very good for keepers to sit in a courtroom and hear the testimonies of experts on MPD/DID testify to the harm this man had done to keepers.  But, it felt even better to hear the judge declare that our former therapist was guilty on five different counts.

Now, to be honest, our former therapist was supposed to be in court for the hearing.  However, he chose to not even make an appearance.  You see, he had hired two different lawyers over the course of five years (while our complaint was being investigated and our case was considered ongoing).  I have been told that both of these lawyers said to our former therapist that he had absolutely no chance of winning in our case and that he should plea bargain with the state Attorney General.  It speaks clearly of this man’s ego that he, then, took on being his own lawyer and refused to come to an agreement with the AG’s office.  But all that really matters is that our former therapist failed to show up in court the day of our hearing which did not look good for him in any way.

It has now been 4 long months since the judge has handed her decision on disciplinary action down against our former therapist.  We were told that keepers would know the judge’s decision shortly after it was handed down.  Somehow, everyone forgot to mention that there was yet another lengthy step to be taken before the judge’s sentencing would be released to us. The case and the judges sentencing would now move to being handled by the State Administrative Hearing Commission.  In late March, keepers were told we would hear on this by mid June and then we were told we would hear in early July.  The reason for this delay is that the state office now working with our case has such a back log that it is taking a long time to get to it.  Anyway, we are now heading into August and keepers still have no word on the disciplinary action being taken against our former therapist.  Our state Adminstrative Hearing Commission (AHC, for short)  has taken this lengthy and slow process and added even more time to keepers waiting which is something we are finding it difficult to be thankful for.

About a month ago, keepers were given a link to the AHC site which would enable keepers to visit and follow the progress of our case at this point.  However, that site has not been updated at all since early May so the link is actually useless to keepers.  Still, we check every day to see if something has been put up about our case against our former therapist.  It is frustrating for keepers to know that it has been such a long time and this complaint we made so long ago has still not come to full conclusion.

In today, keepers look back and remember the 6 different therapists who encouraged us file our complaint so long ago.  They were peers to our former therapist and yet told keepers this man is a true sociopath.  Then, we look back and remember our case manager from our insurance company telling keepers (more than once) to be very careful because our former therapist would do anything to harm keepers.  We look back and remember how this former therapist continued contacting keepers for over five years after we left him.  He did not leave us alone until the AG showed him records they had of his every contact with keepers after he was no longer our therapist of record.

Emotionally, the last six years have been so very long and difficult in terms of our case against him.  Still, keepers went into this knowing that it would be a very long and slow process with many ups and downs.  True, we had no idea how long it would turn out to be and we had no idea what a roller coaster ride our former therapist would keep us on while all of this was unfolding.  But, keepers made the commitment to see our complaint through which we have done.  Now, we just have to be patient while the state makes this slow process longer than we think it needs to be.

When something comes in letting keepers know the final disciplinary action taken against our former therapist we will find pleasure in posting it here on the blog to bring final closure to this saga that often feels like it is going no where.  We hope word will come soon so that keepers can finally lay this part of our lives to rest.

peace and blessings,

keepers