In a professional discipline proceeding, the Tribunal found that the registrant sexually abused and physically abused a client during a massage therapy session, contravened the College’s sexual-abuse prevention standard, and engaged in disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional conduct.
The findings were based on a signed statement of uncontested facts in which the registrant pleaded no contest to the allegations.
Applying the public-interest test for joint submissions, the Tribunal accepted the parties’ joint penalty submission.
It ordered a reprimand, mandatory revocation, reimbursement for therapy or counselling funding provided under s. 85.7 of the Health Professions Procedural Code, security of $6,000, and costs of $5,852.