{ "schema_version": 1, "reviewed": "August 2026", "methodology": "De-identified teaching set transcribed from signed California BBS decisions; not a complete census of all Board actions.", "source": "https://www.bbs.ca.gov/resources/general.html", "privacy": "No licensee names, license numbers, cities, employers, client initials, or direct decision links are published.", "record_count": 48, "records": [ { "slug": "discipline-case-sex-with-a-residential-client", "title": "The clinical director who slept with an inpatient, then asked him for $5 million", "license_type": "LMFT", "violation_category": "sexual", "violation_category_label": "Sexual boundaries", "effective_date": "2024-12-19", "year": 2024, "outcome_category": "Probation", "outcome_summary": "Revocation stayed. Seven years of probation — the maximum probation term the disciplinary guidelines set for sexual misconduct.", "probation_years": 7.0, "cost_recovery_usd": 15883.0, "case_number": "2002022002057", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §4982(d)", "B&P §4982(i)", "B&P §4982(j)", "B&P §4982(k), with §§726 and 729" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-the-two-year-rule-is-not-a-loophole", "title": "“We could date if we ended therapy”", "license_type": "LMFT", "violation_category": "sexual", "violation_category_label": "Sexual boundaries", "effective_date": "2024-12-19", "year": 2024, "outcome_category": "Surrendered", "outcome_summary": "License surrendered.", "probation_years": null, "cost_recovery_usd": 12515.0, "case_number": "2002022002121", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §4982(k)", "B&P §4982(d)", "B&P §4982(m)", "B&P §4982(c)", "B&P §4982(i)" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-three-days-after-the-last-session", "title": "Coffee three days after the final session", "license_type": "LMFT", "violation_category": "sexual", "violation_category_label": "Sexual boundaries", "effective_date": "2024-04-04", "year": 2024, "outcome_category": "Probation", "outcome_summary": "Revocation stayed. Four years of probation.", "probation_years": 4.0, "cost_recovery_usd": 4254.0, "case_number": "2002021002677", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §4982(d) and (e)", "B&P §4982(i)", "B&P §4982(k)" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-eight-years-of-escalation", "title": "Eight years, one client, and four sessions on MDMA", "license_type": "LMFT", "violation_category": "sexual", "violation_category_label": "Sexual boundaries", "effective_date": "2024-10-24", "year": 2024, "outcome_category": "Surrendered", "outcome_summary": "License surrendered.", "probation_years": null, "cost_recovery_usd": 7826.0, "case_number": "2002023000085", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §4982(k), with §§726 and 729", "B&P §4982(d)", "B&P §4982(i)", "B&P §4982(c)" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-denied-it-then-admitted-it", "title": "Denied it to her employer, admitted it two days later", "license_type": "AMFT", "violation_category": "sexual", "violation_category_label": "Sexual boundaries", "effective_date": "2025-09-25", "year": 2025, "outcome_category": "Revoked", "outcome_summary": "Registration revoked. This one was not settled — it was proved at hearing by clear and convincing evidence.", "probation_years": null, "cost_recovery_usd": null, "case_number": "2002024000792", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §4982(d)", "B&P §4982(i)", "B&P §4982(k), with §§726 and 729" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-the-slow-boil", "title": "Three years of small steps, no single event", "license_type": "LMFT", "violation_category": "sexual", "violation_category_label": "Sexual boundaries", "effective_date": "2025-12-04", "year": 2025, "outcome_category": "Surrendered", "outcome_summary": "License surrendered.", "probation_years": null, "cost_recovery_usd": 8039.0, "case_number": "2002024001059", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §4982(k)", "B&P §4982(c)", "B&P §4982(m)", "B&P §4982(i)" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-pseudonyms-and-sleepovers", "title": "“Hope” and “Faith”", "license_type": "AMFT", "violation_category": "dual", "violation_category_label": "Boundary drift with no sexual contact", "effective_date": "2025-03-06", "year": 2025, "outcome_category": "Probation", "outcome_summary": "Revocation stayed. Five years of probation. Eight causes for discipline in total.", "probation_years": 5.0, "cost_recovery_usd": null, "case_number": "2002022002868", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §4982(d)", "B&P §4982(i)", "B&P §4982(m)" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-disciplined-for-emails", "title": "Three years of probation for an email correspondence", "license_type": "LMFT", "violation_category": "dual", "violation_category_label": "Boundary drift with no sexual contact", "effective_date": "2025-07-24", "year": 2025, "outcome_category": "Probation", "outcome_summary": "Revocation stayed. Three years of probation.", "probation_years": 3.0, "cost_recovery_usd": 7644.0, "case_number": "2002022001270", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §4982(d)", "B&P §4982(i)" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-cannabis-with-a-client", "title": "Smoked with a client, drove her home impaired, offered her Xanax", "license_type": "AMFT", "violation_category": "dual", "violation_category_label": "Boundary drift with no sexual contact", "effective_date": "2025-07-24", "year": 2025, "outcome_category": "Surrendered", "outcome_summary": "Registration surrendered.", "probation_years": null, "cost_recovery_usd": 5000.0, "case_number": "2002024000596", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §4982(d)", "B&P §4982(i)", "B&P §4982(e)" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-asking-a-client-where-to-buy-drugs", "title": "“Do you know where a gal could get some E?”", "license_type": "AMFT", "violation_category": "dual", "violation_category_label": "Boundary drift with no sexual contact", "effective_date": "2024-10-24", "year": 2024, "outcome_category": "Surrendered", "outcome_summary": "Registration surrendered.", "probation_years": null, "cost_recovery_usd": 8107.0, "case_number": "2002023000019", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §4982(d)", "B&P §4982(i)", "B&P §4982(e)" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-drinking-at-lunch", "title": "Alcohol at lunch, then a session and a group", "license_type": "LMFT", "violation_category": "dual", "violation_category_label": "Boundary drift with no sexual contact", "effective_date": "2025-07-24", "year": 2025, "outcome_category": "Probation", "outcome_summary": "LMFT license revoked, the revocation stayed, and four years of probation imposed. Conditions include total abstinence from alcohol and from controlled substances not lawfully prescribed, random and directed drug and alcohol testing at his own cost with automatic suspension of the license on a confirmed positive, a Board-approved dependency support program at least twice a week, weekly psychotherapy with a Board-approved therapist, one hour a week of independent supervised practice, two semester units of graduate coursework in substance use and abuse within 18 months, no supervising associates or trainees for the term, and written notice to clients and employers.", "probation_years": 4.0, "cost_recovery_usd": 5190.0, "case_number": "2002023002307", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §4982(d)", "B&P §4982(c)", "B&P §4982(i)" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-the-custody-letter", "title": "The letter written for the ex-spouse", "license_type": "LMFT", "violation_category": "records", "violation_category_label": "Records, confidentiality and the file", "effective_date": "2025-09-25", "year": 2025, "outcome_category": "Surrendered", "outcome_summary": "Stayed revocation with probation in September 2023, then license surrendered in September 2025 under a condition of that order. Cannot reapply for three years; all charges deemed true and admitted for any future application; the surrender forecloses any petition for reinstatement.", "probation_years": 3.0, "cost_recovery_usd": 12242.0, "case_number": "2002021001271 and 2002026000262", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §4982(d)", "B&P §4982(m)", "B&P §4982(j)", "B&P §4982(w), with Penal Code §11166" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-seven-business-practice-failures", "title": "Revoked outright for how the practice was run", "license_type": "LMFT", "violation_category": "records", "violation_category_label": "Records, confidentiality and the file", "effective_date": "2025-07-24", "year": 2025, "outcome_category": "Probation", "outcome_summary": "License revoked outright. No stay, no probation — one of only a handful of unstayed revocations in three years.", "probation_years": 3.0, "cost_recovery_usd": null, "case_number": "2002022002849", "charge_citations": [ "16 CCR §1845, via B&P §4982(e)", "B&P §4982(y), with Health & Safety Code §123110", "B&P §4980(b), with §4982(d) and (e)", "B&P §4982(p), with §651", "B&P §4982(d), (j) and (n)", "B&P §4982(d)", "B&P §4982(i)" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-the-address-of-record", "title": "The address of record", "license_type": "LMFT", "violation_category": "records", "violation_category_label": "Records, confidentiality and the file", "effective_date": "2024-04-04", "year": 2024, "outcome_category": "Surrendered", "outcome_summary": "License surrendered.", "probation_years": null, "cost_recovery_usd": null, "case_number": null, "charge_citations": [ "16 CCR §1804", "B&P §4982(d)", "16 CCR §1845, via §4982(e)" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-forged-supervisor-signature", "title": "The supervisor had died, and the hours still needed signing", "license_type": "AMFT", "violation_category": "money", "violation_category_label": "Money, billing and honesty", "effective_date": "2025-12-04", "year": 2025, "outcome_category": "Probation", "outcome_summary": "Revocation stayed. Three years of probation.", "probation_years": 3.0, "cost_recovery_usd": null, "case_number": "2002024001984 and 2002025002324", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §4982(b)", "B&P §4982(j)", "B&P §4982(u)", "B&P §4982(e), with 16 CCR §1815.8 and B&P §§4980.43 and 4980.50" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-twenty-three-sessions-in-one-day", "title": "23 sessions billed in a single day", "license_type": "LMFT", "violation_category": "money", "violation_category_label": "Money, billing and honesty", "effective_date": "2025-09-25", "year": 2025, "outcome_category": "Revoked", "outcome_summary": "License revoked.", "probation_years": null, "cost_recovery_usd": null, "case_number": "2002024002764", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §490 and §4982(a)", "B&P §4982(j)", "16 CCR §1845, via §4982(e)" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-embezzlement-outside-the-practice", "title": "62 checks written at a bookkeeping job, and a revoked registration", "license_type": "AMFT", "violation_category": "money", "violation_category_label": "Money, billing and honesty", "effective_date": "2026-02-12", "year": 2026, "outcome_category": "Revoked", "outcome_summary": "Registration revoked.", "probation_years": null, "cost_recovery_usd": null, "case_number": "2002025001092", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §490 and §4982(a)", "B&P §490 and §4982(j)" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-discipline-follows-your-other-license", "title": "The psychology board acted, and the MFT license followed", "license_type": "LMFT", "violation_category": "another", "violation_category_label": "Discipline that arrives from somewhere else", "effective_date": "2025-09-25", "year": 2025, "outcome_category": "Probation", "outcome_summary": "Revocation stayed. Two years of probation.", "probation_years": 2.0, "cost_recovery_usd": 3000.0, "case_number": "2002024001648", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §4982.25(a)", "B&P §4982(e)" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-thirty-days-to-report-discipline", "title": "The 30 days that made it worse", "license_type": "LMFT", "violation_category": "another", "violation_category_label": "Discipline that arrives from somewhere else", "effective_date": "2025-09-25", "year": 2025, "outcome_category": "Surrendered", "outcome_summary": "License surrendered.", "probation_years": null, "cost_recovery_usd": 1859.0, "case_number": "2002025000504", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §4982.25(a)", "16 CCR §1845(c)(2), via §4982(e)" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-out-of-state-discipline", "title": "Disciplined in Arizona, surrendered in California", "license_type": "LMFT", "violation_category": "another", "violation_category_label": "Discipline that arrives from somewhere else", "effective_date": "2025-03-06", "year": 2025, "outcome_category": "Surrendered", "outcome_summary": "California license surrendered.", "probation_years": null, "cost_recovery_usd": 2345.0, "case_number": "2002025000734", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §4982.25(a)" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-the-only-public-reproval", "title": "The floor of the sanction ladder", "license_type": "LMFT", "violation_category": "another", "violation_category_label": "Discipline that arrives from somewhere else", "effective_date": "2025-03-06", "year": 2025, "outcome_category": "Public reproval", "outcome_summary": "Public Reproval — the only public reprimand of an MFT in the 2024–2026 data, and the mildest formal discipline in the entire set. Cost recovery payable in full within 90 days.", "probation_years": null, "cost_recovery_usd": null, "case_number": "2002024002761", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §4982.25(a)" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-ignoring-an-order-to-be-examined", "title": "The order to be examined is not a request", "license_type": "LMFT", "violation_category": "fitness", "violation_category_label": "Fitness-to-practice examinations", "effective_date": "2024-04-04", "year": 2024, "outcome_category": "Surrendered", "outcome_summary": "Two revocations and one surrender.", "probation_years": null, "cost_recovery_usd": null, "case_number": "2002024000682, 2002021002700 and 2002023000786", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §820", "B&P §821", "B&P §822" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-two-duis-five-years-probation", "title": "Two DUIs, five years of probation: the most common case in California", "license_type": "LMFT", "violation_category": "conviction", "violation_category_label": "Convictions, and the duty to report one", "effective_date": "2025-05-15", "year": 2025, "outcome_category": "Probation", "outcome_summary": "Revocation stayed. Five years of probation.", "probation_years": 5.0, "cost_recovery_usd": 2201.0, "case_number": "2002023000269", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §§490 and 4982(a), with 16 CCR §1812", "B&P §4982(c)" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-failing-to-report-your-own-conviction", "title": "A reckless driving conviction, charged six times", "license_type": "AMFT", "violation_category": "conviction", "violation_category_label": "Convictions, and the duty to report one", "effective_date": "2026-02-12", "year": 2026, "outcome_category": "Probation", "outcome_summary": "Both registrations revoked, revocations stayed, five years of probation.", "probation_years": 5.0, "cost_recovery_usd": 2578.0, "case_number": "2002023001203", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §§490 and 4982(a)", "B&P §4982(c)", "16 CCR §1845(c)(1), via §4982(e)", "B&P §4999.90(a) and (c)" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-a-forty-year-license-surrendered", "title": "Licensed since the 1980s, surrendered after one DUI", "license_type": "LMFT", "violation_category": "conviction", "violation_category_label": "Convictions, and the duty to report one", "effective_date": "2026-02-12", "year": 2026, "outcome_category": "Surrendered", "outcome_summary": "License surrendered.", "probation_years": null, "cost_recovery_usd": 2090.0, "case_number": "2002025002528", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §§490 and 4982(a)", "B&P §4982(c)" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-charged-without-a-conviction", "title": "Charged for conduct that was never prosecuted", "license_type": "LMFT", "violation_category": "conviction", "violation_category_label": "Convictions, and the duty to report one", "effective_date": "2024-01-18", "year": 2024, "outcome_category": "Probation", "outcome_summary": "Revocation stayed. Three years of probation.", "probation_years": 3.0, "cost_recovery_usd": 5083.0, "case_number": "2002023000103", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §§490 and 4982(a)", "B&P §4982 (chapeau)" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-from-dui-to-surrender", "title": "The whole arc: conviction, probation, then surrender seven months later", "license_type": "LMFT", "violation_category": "conviction", "violation_category_label": "Convictions, and the duty to report one", "effective_date": "2025-06-26", "year": 2025, "outcome_category": "Surrendered", "outcome_summary": "Five years of probation, then surrender seven months in.", "probation_years": 5.0, "cost_recovery_usd": null, "case_number": "2002024002022 and 2002026002142", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §4982(a), with 16 CCR §1812", "B&P §4982(c)", "16 CCR §1845(d), via §4982(e)" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-four-ways-to-violate-probation", "title": "Four ways to violate probation, and one of them is not paying", "license_type": "LMFT", "violation_category": "probation", "violation_category_label": "What happens after discipline", "effective_date": "2024-12-19", "year": 2024, "outcome_category": "Revoked", "outcome_summary": "License revoked.", "probation_years": null, "cost_recovery_usd": 4530.0, "case_number": "2002024002031", "charge_citations": [ "Probation Condition 1", "Probation Condition 6", "Probation Condition 7", "Probation Condition 21" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-when-the-judge-cuts-the-bill", "title": "The Board asked for $10,778. The judge ordered $4,000.", "license_type": "LMFT", "violation_category": "probation", "violation_category_label": "What happens after discipline", "effective_date": "2025-06-26", "year": 2025, "outcome_category": "Probation changed", "outcome_summary": "Probation reinstated for three years. Costs reduced from $10,778 to $4,000.", "probation_years": 3.0, "cost_recovery_usd": 4000.0, "case_number": "2002023002059", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §125.3" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-seven-years-under-supervision", "title": "Seven years on probation and counting", "license_type": "LMFT", "violation_category": "probation", "violation_category_label": "What happens after discipline", "effective_date": "2024-04-04", "year": 2024, "outcome_category": "Probation changed", "outcome_summary": "Probation extended in each case, by twelve to eighteen months.", "probation_years": null, "cost_recovery_usd": 3432.0, "case_number": "Three separate matters", "charge_citations": [ "Probation conditions" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-billed-for-sessions-that-never-happened", "title": "Twenty-two sessions billed for a patient seen twice", "license_type": "LMFT", "violation_category": "money", "violation_category_label": "Money, billing and honesty", "effective_date": "2023-05-18", "year": 2023, "outcome_category": "Surrendered", "outcome_summary": "License surrendered by stipulation after she had filed a notice of defense contesting an amended accusation. She may not petition for reinstatement, and may reapply only after three years as a new applicant — current education, current experience, and every examination required of new applicants — with all charges deemed admitted against any future application.", "probation_years": 3.0, "cost_recovery_usd": 32956.0, "case_number": "2002019002464", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §4982(d)", "B&P §4982(i)", "B&P §4982(j)", "B&P §4982(p)", "B&P §651", "B&P §4980.49(a)", "B&P §4982(v)", "B&P §4982(e)" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-a-decade-of-employer-warnings", "title": "Four employers acted on him before the Board ever did", "license_type": "AMFT", "violation_category": "sexual", "violation_category_label": "Sexual boundaries", "effective_date": "2023-03-09", "year": 2023, "outcome_category": "Surrendered", "outcome_summary": "Registration surrendered by stipulation; he represented himself throughout. He may not petition for reinstatement and may reapply only after three years as a new applicant, with every charge deemed admitted against any future application to this Board or to the Board of Psychology.", "probation_years": 3.0, "cost_recovery_usd": 33704.0, "case_number": "2002020001461", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §726(a)", "B&P §4982(k)", "B&P §4982(d)", "B&P §4982(i)", "B&P §4982(j)", "B&P §729" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-underground-psychedelics-and-two-clients", "title": "He dosed two clients with MDMA and psilocybin, then slept with one", "license_type": "LMFT", "violation_category": "sexual", "violation_category_label": "Sexual boundaries", "effective_date": "2023-03-09", "year": 2023, "outcome_category": "Surrendered", "outcome_summary": "License surrendered by stipulation after he had filed a notice of defense contesting the accusation. He may not petition for reinstatement and may reapply only after three years as a new applicant, with every charge deemed admitted against any future application.", "probation_years": 3.0, "cost_recovery_usd": 14486.0, "case_number": "2002021002361", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §4982(c)", "B&P §726", "B&P §4982(k)", "B&P §4982.26", "B&P §4982(d)", "B&P §4982(i)", "B&P §729" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-a-felony-assault-and-a-default", "title": "A felony assault conviction, and no answer to the Board", "license_type": "APCC", "violation_category": "conviction", "violation_category_label": "Convictions, and the duty to report one", "effective_date": "2023-05-18", "year": 2023, "outcome_category": "Revoked", "outcome_summary": "Registration revoked by default decision. The Board separately found its actual costs of enforcement to be $4,551.25 as of March 15, 2023; the order itself contains no payment term. He had seven days from service of the decision to move to have it vacated for good cause.", "probation_years": null, "cost_recovery_usd": 4551.25, "case_number": "2002019002856", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §490", "B&P §4999.90(a)", "Penal Code §245(a)(4)", "16 CCR §1812", "16 CCR §1814", "B&P §482" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-letting-a-registration-lapse-on-probation", "title": "Her registration lapsed while she was on probation for it", "license_type": "AMFT", "violation_category": "probation", "violation_category_label": "What happens after discipline", "effective_date": null, "year": null, "outcome_category": "Probation changed", "outcome_summary": "Registration revoked, revocation stayed, and probation reimposed for 42 months on expanded terms — longer than the three years she was already serving. The order contains no separate cost recovery term; probation monitoring is reimbursed at $1,200 a year, and the $1,855 in costs from the underlying case remained payable under that earlier decision.", "probation_years": 3.0, "cost_recovery_usd": null, "case_number": "2002023000887", "charge_citations": [ "Probation Condition 14 — Maintain Valid Registration", "B&P §4982", "B&P §4990.33", "B&P §4982(a)", "B&P §4982(j)", "B&P §490", "16 CCR §1845(h)", "Penal Code §470(d)", "Penal Code §473(a)" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-a-battery-conviction-and-a-default", "title": "A battery conviction ends an associate’s registration", "license_type": "ASW", "violation_category": "conviction", "violation_category_label": "Convictions, and the duty to report one", "effective_date": "2023-05-18", "year": 2023, "outcome_category": "Revoked", "outcome_summary": "Associate Clinical Social Worker registration revoked by default decision and order. The respondent had seven days after service of the decision to move to vacate it for good cause.", "probation_years": null, "cost_recovery_usd": null, "case_number": "2002022002071", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §4992.3(a)", "B&P §490(a)", "Penal Code §242", "16 CCR §1812" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-falsified-course-certificates-end-a-probation", "title": "Falsified course certificates end a stayed revocation", "license_type": "LMFT", "violation_category": "probation", "violation_category_label": "What happens after discipline", "effective_date": "2024-06-13", "year": 2024, "outcome_category": "Probation", "outcome_summary": "The petition was granted. Probation was revoked, the stay was lifted, and the LMFT license was revoked.", "probation_years": null, "cost_recovery_usd": null, "case_number": "2002023001526", "charge_citations": [ "Probation Condition 1 — Psychotherapy", "Probation Condition 2 — Supervised Practice", "Probation Condition 3 — Education", "Probation Condition 7 — Comply with Probation Program", "Probation Condition 19 — Reimbursement of Probation Program", "Probation Condition 20 — Cost Recovery", "Probation Condition 14 — Violation of Probation" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-psychology-probation-reaches-a-second-license", "title": "Psychology board probation reaches a second license", "license_type": "LEP", "violation_category": "another", "violation_category_label": "Discipline that arrives from somewhere else", "effective_date": "2025-07-24", "year": 2025, "outcome_category": "Probation", "outcome_summary": "Licensed Educational Psychologist license revoked, the revocation stayed, and three years of probation imposed. The supervised practice condition is deemed satisfied by the supervised practice she is already doing under the Board of Psychology probation.", "probation_years": 3.0, "cost_recovery_usd": 2000.0, "case_number": "2002024002213", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §4989.54(h)", "16 CCR §1858(e)(2)" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-a-mandated-report-never-filed", "title": "A year of abuse disclosures, no report filed", "license_type": "LMFT", "violation_category": "another", "violation_category_label": "Discipline that arrives from somewhere else", "effective_date": "2025-05-15", "year": 2025, "outcome_category": "Surrendered", "outcome_summary": "The LMFT license was surrendered and the surrender accepted by the Board, which is itself the imposition of discipline and part of her permanent license history. She lost all rights as an LMFT on the effective date, may not petition for reinstatement, and may reapply only after three years, meeting all current requirements including examinations.", "probation_years": 3.0, "cost_recovery_usd": 3854.0, "case_number": "2002024002543", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §4982(e)", "B&P §4982.25(a)" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-two-nursing-actions-before-registration", "title": "Two nursing board actions, then an MFT application", "license_type": "AMFT", "violation_category": "applying", "violation_category_label": "Applying with a record", "effective_date": "2025-07-24", "year": 2025, "outcome_category": "Issued on probation", "outcome_summary": "The Board ordered that the registration be issued once the respondent completes all registration requirements, then immediately revoked, with the revocation stayed and the respondent placed on two years’ probation. Conditions include at least one hour a week of individual face-to-face supervision by an independent Board-approved supervisor, two graduate semester units in medical recordkeeping and documentation within 18 months, notification of every employer, quarterly reports under penalty of perjury, and $1,200 a year in probation monitoring costs.", "probation_years": 2.0, "cost_recovery_usd": null, "case_number": "2002024001842", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §480(a)(2)", "B&P §4982.25(a)", "16 CCR §1812", "16 CCR §1813" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-felony-child-endangerment-never-reported", "title": "Felony child endangerment, and no answer to the Board", "license_type": "ASW", "violation_category": "conviction", "violation_category_label": "Convictions, and the duty to report one", "effective_date": "2023-12-14", "year": 2023, "outcome_category": "Revoked", "outcome_summary": "The Board found the respondent in default under Government Code section 11520, found every charge true by clear and convincing evidence, and revoked the Associate Clinical Social Worker registration effective December 14, 2023. She had seven days after service of the decision to move to have it vacated for good cause.", "probation_years": null, "cost_recovery_usd": null, "case_number": "2002022000859", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §4992.3(a)", "B&P §490", "B&P §493", "B&P §4992.3(f)", "16 CCR §1881(s)(1)", "16 CCR §1881(t)", "16 CCR §1812", "16 CCR §1814(a)", "B&P §4990.33", "Pen. Code §273a(a)", "Pen. Code §245(a)(1)", "Pen. Code §148(a)(1)" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-signed-her-supervisors-name", "title": "She wrote her supervisor’s name on the hours forms", "license_type": "APCC", "violation_category": "applying", "violation_category_label": "Applying with a record", "effective_date": "2024-01-18", "year": 2024, "outcome_category": "Issued on probation", "outcome_summary": "The Associate Professional Clinical Counselor registration was revoked. The application for a subsequent associate registration was granted: the registration issues on completion of all requirements, is then immediately revoked, that revocation is stayed, and the respondent is on three years’ probation with weekly psychotherapy, two graduate semester units in law and ethics, supervised practice once she is licensed, and $1,200 a year in monitoring costs.", "probation_years": 3.0, "cost_recovery_usd": 3000.0, "case_number": "2002022001395", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §4999.90(b)", "B&P §4999.90(j)", "B&P §4990.33", "B&P §4990.34", "16 CCR §1812", "16 CCR §1813(c)", "16 CCR §1814(c)", "B&P §125.3" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-probation-traded-for-surrender", "title": "A 0.15 breath test and two missed 30-day deadlines", "license_type": "AMFT", "violation_category": "conviction", "violation_category_label": "Convictions, and the duty to report one", "effective_date": "2023-12-14", "year": 2023, "outcome_category": "Surrendered", "outcome_summary": "The registration was revoked, the revocation stayed, and the respondent placed on three years’ probation with a psychological or psychiatric evaluation, weekly psychotherapy, total abstinence from alcohol and controlled substances with random testing, an addictive behavior support group, and two graduate semester units in substance abuse; no actual suspension and no supervised practice were imposed. Less than two years in she invoked the order’s license-surrender condition, and the Board accepted the surrender effective December 14, 2023, barring her from applying for any Board registration or license for three years and deeming every charge admitted against any future application.", "probation_years": 3.0, "cost_recovery_usd": null, "case_number": "2002024000775", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §4982(a)", "B&P §4982(c)", "B&P §490", "16 CCR §1845(g)(1)", "16 CCR §1845(h)", "Veh. Code §23103", "Veh. Code §23103.5", "B&P §125.3" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-thirty-four-year-sentence-then-registration", "title": "A 34-year prison sentence, then a social work application", "license_type": "ASW", "violation_category": "applying", "violation_category_label": "Applying with a record", "effective_date": "2025-03-06", "year": 2025, "outcome_category": "Issued on probation", "outcome_summary": "The Board ordered that the registration be issued once the respondent completes all registration requirements, then immediately revoked, with the revocation stayed and the respondent placed on five years’ probation. Conditions include a psychological or psychiatric evaluation within 90 days and periodically after, compliance with the evaluator’s recommendations, two graduate semester units in anger management within 18 months, supervised practice once he is licensed as a clinical social worker, reporting any violation of law within 72 hours, and $1,200 a year in monitoring costs.", "probation_years": 5.0, "cost_recovery_usd": null, "case_number": "2002024001328", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §480(a)", "B&P §481", "B&P §493", "B&P §4992.3(a)", "16 CCR §1812", "16 CCR §1813", "Pen. Code §245(d)(2)", "Pen. Code §12022.53(c)" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-eight-weeks-without-a-therapist", "title": "Eight weeks without a therapist, and a year added to probation", "license_type": "ASW", "violation_category": "probation", "violation_category_label": "What happens after discipline", "effective_date": "2023-09-28", "year": 2023, "outcome_category": "Probation changed", "outcome_summary": "Probation revoked, the revocation stayed, and the original four-year term extended by one additional year from August 24, 2024, to run consecutively with the probation already in effect. All original terms and conditions remained in force.", "probation_years": null, "cost_recovery_usd": null, "case_number": "2002023002018", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §4990.33", "Probation Condition 2 — Psychotherapy", "Probation Condition 8 — Failure to Practice", "Probation Condition 18 — Reimbursement of Probation Program", "B&P §480(a)(1)", "B&P §4992.3(a)", "16 CCR §1812" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-road-rage-and-a-default-revocation", "title": "A drive-through altercation, then no answer to the Board", "license_type": "AMFT", "violation_category": "conviction", "violation_category_label": "Convictions, and the duty to report one", "effective_date": "2024-08-15", "year": 2024, "outcome_category": "Revoked", "outcome_summary": "Registration revoked by default under Government Code section 11520. The decision records investigation and enforcement costs of $2,597.50; the order itself directed revocation and gave him seven days after service to move to vacate the decision for good cause.", "probation_years": null, "cost_recovery_usd": 2597.5, "case_number": "2002023001429", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §490", "B&P §4982(a)", "16 CCR §1845(g)(1)", "16 CCR §1845(h)", "B&P §4990.33", "B&P §125.3" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-almost-forty-years-of-rehabilitation", "title": "A 1985 murder conviction, and a 2024 registration on probation", "license_type": "APCC", "violation_category": "applying", "violation_category_label": "Applying with a record", "effective_date": "2024-08-15", "year": 2024, "outcome_category": "Issued on probation", "outcome_summary": "The application was granted. The registration issues on completion of all requirements, is immediately revoked, the revocation is stayed, and the respondent is on five years of probation. Adopting the Proposed Decision, the Board reduced the penalty by deleting one condition, the clinical diagnostic evaluation, which would have carried an automatic one-month suspension and twice-weekly random drug testing.", "probation_years": 5.0, "cost_recovery_usd": null, "case_number": "2002023002544", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §480(a)(1)(A)", "B&P §4999.90(a)", "B&P §482", "B&P §493", "16 CCR §1812", "16 CCR §1813", "Pen. Code §187", "Pen. Code §12022.5" ] }, { "slug": "discipline-case-serious-felonies-ignore-the-seven-year-rule", "title": "A 2008 conviction still reached a 2024 application", "license_type": "ASW", "violation_category": "applying", "violation_category_label": "Applying with a record", "effective_date": "2025-12-04", "year": 2025, "outcome_category": "Issued on probation", "outcome_summary": "The application was granted by stipulation. The registration issues on completion of all requirements, is immediately revoked, the revocation is stayed, and the respondent is on three years of probation, with $1,200 a year in probation monitoring costs.", "probation_years": 3.0, "cost_recovery_usd": null, "case_number": "2002024002349", "charge_citations": [ "B&P §480(a)(1)", "B&P §4992.3(a)", "Pen. Code §1192.7(c)", "16 CCR §1812", "16 CCR §1813", "Pen. Code §664", "Pen. Code §187", "Pen. Code §245(a)(1)" ] } ] }