Sana Imran

The College discipline panel found a registrant social worker guilty of professional misconduct for making sexualized remarks to two vulnerable teenage clients during school counselling sessions.

Applying the balance of probabilities to an agreed statement of facts and admissions, the panel held the conduct breached professional standards, constituted sexual abuse within the governing statute, and amounted to disgraceful, dishonourable and unprofessional conduct.

A publication ban was granted to protect the clients’ identities and identifying school information.

The panel accepted a joint submission imposing a reprimand, publication of the finding and order, and $5,000 in costs, noting the registrant had permanently surrendered his certificate and undertaken never to practise again.

In a professional discipline proceeding subject to a publication ban, the panel accepted the registrant’s admissions that she entered a personal and sexual relationship with a vulnerable client shortly after providing counselling and psychotherapy services to that client and the client’s spouse.

The panel found professional misconduct based on boundary violations, conflicts of interest, sexual abuse, misuse of confidential information, failure to terminate the therapeutic relationship appropriately, and conduct disgraceful, dishonourable, or unprofessional under the governing statute and regulation.

On a joint submission, the panel imposed a reprimand, revocation of registration, a five-year prohibition on reapplication, publication of the order, and $1,000 in costs.

The panel held the proposed penalty was consistent with public protection, denunciation, and specific and general deterrence.

In a professional discipline hearing, the panel found professional misconduct where a social service worker developed boundary-crossing interactions with a vulnerable addiction client during counselling and entered into a personal and sexual relationship less than eight months after the counselling relationship ended.

The panel held that the admitted facts established conflicts of interest, exploitation, sexual misconduct, and conduct reasonably regarded as disgraceful, dishonourable, and unprofessional under the governing statute, regulation, and practice standards.

A publication ban protecting the client’s identity was granted under s. 28(7).

The panel accepted a joint submission on penalty and ordered reprimand, revocation, a five-year prohibition on reapplying for registration, publication of the finding and order, and $5,000 in costs.

In a professional discipline proceeding, the panel found that the registrant committed extensive professional misconduct arising from boundary violations with a vulnerable client, including a later sexual relationship with a former counselling client, confidentiality breaches, inadequate records, and conflicts of interest.

The panel accepted the registrant’s admissions and the agreed statement of facts, and held that the conduct contravened multiple provisions of the governing statute, regulation, and professional standards, including conduct reasonably regarded as disgraceful, dishonourable and unprofessional.

A publication ban protecting the client’s identity was granted in the public interest.

The panel accepted a joint submission on penalty, ordered revocation, a five-year prohibition on re-application or reinstatement, publication of the finding and order, a reprimand, and $5,000 in costs.