Threats made by a mental health counselor.?

Question

A few years ago my spouce and I were having marital problems and we were ordered to seek counseling.
A friend of my husbands who causes trouble between my husband and I has recently just been trained to be a counselor at this facility and has threatened to tamper with the records to say I'm crazy so my husband can have me committed if I'm ever stand up for myself again.Unbelievable but true. Can he really do this? What can I do to protect myself ?

Answer 1

This "friend" can and will loose his license is he EVER tampered with any records. Call the facility and ask for a copy of all records in detail so you have a copy on hand for comparison. You won't need them, I'm sure, but it will make you feel better. Never, ever throw them away. Also, this "friend" isn't worth you and your husbands time of day. Talk with your husband about this. That is unacceptable 'friendship' and professional behavior.

Answer 2

Tampering with evidence would not only cost him his job and is license, it's actually a felony, and he could go to jail for it. If your husband is abusing you in any way, this "friend" would also be an accomplice to anything your husband might do to you, and could face criminal charges for that as well. Also, if your husband in any way abusive, this "friend" could be charged with intimiating a witness just for treatening you, even if he didn't actually alter the records.

If your husband isn't abusing you, and you mean standing up to him in the sense of not letting him alway letting him make all the decisions, then the only criminal act would be if he actually did tamper with evidence (I think there's also some kind of law specifically about framing people that might also apply in that case, but he'd still have to actually do it, and not just threaten to). But if there was nothing violent or legally questionable going on, I'm having trouble imagining who could have 'ordered' you to seek counseling, so I'm guessing that this friend did break the law just by threatening you. Of course, you'd have to prove he threatened you. If he's done it multiple times, try to get it on tape somehow. If anyone heard him tell you that might work, but eye witness evidence tends to be unreliable on it's own, so it's better if you can find a way to get it on tape.

Just threatening to tamper with records should be considered abuse his power, and should be enough to have him fired from the facility, and quite possibly to have his counselor license revoked as well. I suggest you report him to a supervisor at the facility. You can ask them to keep the complaint confidental, so he won't know that you reported him. If you're not sure who to report him to, you can talk to the marriage counselor you were seeing in confidence, and anything the two of you talk about will be protected by doctor-patient priviledge so there would be no danger of this "friend" finding out.

Answer 3

For one thing, why would you stay with your husband if you feared he might have you commited after someone tampers with your file? Second, if this person is merely a counselor and NOT a clinical psychiatrist, there is nothing they can really do anyway! Have you done anything at all that makes you look crazy? Have you harmed anyone or harmed yourself? There has to be proof that you are a danger to society in order for a spouse to have you commited. I think you need to revaluate your marriage because if your husband listens to his "friend" over you and allows this person to threaten you if you stand up for yourself, you are in a bad situation. Good luck.

Answer 4

You sound such as you're from the united kingdom via the style you write. i'm from the U. S. and right here the therapist would not be allowed to disclose the finished of your magazine. She is, i'm fairly specific, required via regulation to make notification to the right human beings in case you pose an considerable and on the spot risk to your self and/or others. right here while you're threatening suicide the police could be added into it and that they are able to place you in a scientific institution for seventy two hours for remark and disaster therapy. so some distance as letting your pals examine your finished diary that, i think of is incorrect! all your therapist desires to do is enable them to in on the pertinent training pertaining on your cutting-edge disaster. i'd touch your scientific ethics board and ask them those questions. additionally, basically attempt telling your therapist which you do no longer choose everyone yet her analyzing what you write and that i think of that then your diary would come under the auspices of wellbeing practitioner/affected person confidentiality and then she would be sure as to what passages she would desire to share, if any in any respect.

Answer 5

maybe call the police or see your family doc and explain how this is affecting you, causing depression etc. maybe a lawyer, etc. if you have a good family doc, just tell him whats going on.

Answer 6

No he cannot do this as your records are private and confidential.

Answer 7

Sounds like you should leave him, sounds like they are making you crazy!
DIVORCE!