A discipline panel found professional misconduct where the registrant practised psychotherapy while his certificate of registration was suspended for non-payment of fees, used restricted titles during suspension, issued invoices containing false information, and continued online advertising that held him out as a psychotherapist.
The panel held that this conduct contravened the profession’s standards of practice, the title restrictions in the governing statute, and specific misconduct provisions addressing practising and benefiting while suspended.
Applying the Anthony-Cook framework to the parties’ joint submission, the panel concluded that the proposed sanction was not contrary to the public interest.
The panel imposed a two-month suspension, a reprimand, specified remedial study requirements, and costs of $4,700 payable over 24 months.
