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Hi, everyone. There are a couple of times, probably a week, that I get a call from someone who says that they feel like they have been mistreated or abused or controlled or manipulated by someone who they went to for help.

I'm talking specifically about people who have gone to coaches, to people who call themselves

healers, to also licensed professionals who are therapists, social workers, sometimes even psychiatrists. And it's very

worrisome to me. What's equally worrisome to me is how few safeguards there are. And I think

for a lot of people who do this, who control other people in this way, they know there are so few safeguards.

There are issues that people have had when they've contacted the boards that oversee these people,

these licenses, if they are licensed. And the board really is ill-equipped to know how to handle these situations. And so they

haven't gotten recourse because they can't seem to prove it. The idea of coercive control,

the idea of manipulation, emotional manipulation, that makes it so difficult is that

there aren't necessarily chains on someone and you won't see

the chains sort of on their mind and how do they prove it? They won't see necessarily a lock on

the door, but the person still feels that they can never leave this situation. Very similar

to being in a controlling organization or in a controlling relationship

where people are asked, well, why did you stay? And there are so many reasons that people stay.

But especially if you're finally going to someone who says that they can help you, or you've

gotten the confidence or the nerve to be able to reach out for help and get some help

finally with something that's been bothering you. There are times that it is really buyer beware

and you really need to do your research and there's some very important things to watch out for.

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