I’m in a bizarre situation where I had a number of counselling sessions with a ‘professional’ who it turns out is a fraud by falsely claiming membership to the BACP. Stupidly I invited my now ex wife to two of these meetings. Needless to say this was a bad idea.
My ex wife then contacted the counsellor, who then provided her with a statement of just what an awful person I am. Ex is trying to use this ‘evidence’ in criminal and family court. What’s funny is that this letter makes references to incidences which happened after I stopped seeing this counsellor.
When I started seeing this counsellor i was recording the conversations for my own benefit as I was using these recordings to reflect and take in board the advice offered. I was recording the two sessions with my wife also and therefore I can unequivocally prove the contents of this email to be false. Without doubt my intention of recording these sessions were for my own benefit only, clearly I was not trying to obtain evidence or manipulate in any way as I was not intending for anybody to be made aware of these recordings. Nevertheless, I am concerned that if I argue the authenticity of the recordings it will be seen as me who is the ‘controlling coercive’ individual because if this.
Does anybody have any advice or experience on how the court sees such evidence or actions?
The counselling industry really should be better regulated because there is nothing stopping these charlatans from practicing; membership of counselling bodies is not mandatory. There is nobody I can complain to other than the ICO.
My ex wife then contacted the counsellor, who then provided her with a statement of just what an awful person I am. Ex is trying to use this ‘evidence’ in criminal and family court. What’s funny is that this letter makes references to incidences which happened after I stopped seeing this counsellor.
When I started seeing this counsellor i was recording the conversations for my own benefit as I was using these recordings to reflect and take in board the advice offered. I was recording the two sessions with my wife also and therefore I can unequivocally prove the contents of this email to be false. Without doubt my intention of recording these sessions were for my own benefit only, clearly I was not trying to obtain evidence or manipulate in any way as I was not intending for anybody to be made aware of these recordings. Nevertheless, I am concerned that if I argue the authenticity of the recordings it will be seen as me who is the ‘controlling coercive’ individual because if this.
Does anybody have any advice or experience on how the court sees such evidence or actions?
The counselling industry really should be better regulated because there is nothing stopping these charlatans from practicing; membership of counselling bodies is not mandatory. There is nobody I can complain to other than the ICO.