I was a patient of Kents for over 2 years, during that time Kent repeatedly violated professional boundaries. Ive honestly been scared to post this review for a while now because I fear Kent may retaliate given his history. I'll speak to my personal experience below, but I strongly encourage every one to look further into this man. Hes had several ethics complaints against him, arrested on stalking charges, married a patient... the list goes on.
Kent once spent most of one of my sessions describing an experience he had on psychedelic drugs during the prior weekend. He specifically mentioned to me that his wife didn't know he took the shrooms, and then told me multiple times that he thought about Me while he was on the drugs. He said it so casually, like it was something I should be honored by. I was visibly uncomfortable the entire time but he kept sharing and kept telling me again how he kept thinking of me while under the influence. He also often made comments on my appearance, and would bring up sexual topics or questions unprompted.
Looking back, i see that many of my sessions were him talking about himself, or boasting about how he "solved" my problem, bragging about how he does this all the time, and telling me about all the different "great" things hes done for clients. Often sharing private details about what they went through. This happened quite frequently in a variety of ways, one example that comes to mind is him telling me how he testified in court for a client who had been sexually abused in horrific ways while in the military. Kent shared some specific details of what happened to this other client and the ways that she was abused, and painted himself as a hero for testifying for her in court. He shared details of sexual assault of a previous patient, with me, a patient, seeing him for help in regards to my PTSD because I was sexually abused as a child. What he shared was extremely triggering and unhelpful to me. Now that I havent been seeing Kent for nearly a year, my life and mind have been more stable and clear than they have been for the two years I was seeking treatment from him. Kent consistently suggested erratic and harmful behavior to me when I was at my most vulnerable and unstable. He seemed to treat my life like it was a chess game he could manipulate and watch play out. He once told me: "I love when you come in for sessions, I feel like your life is my Lord of the Rings and theres all these characters in your life I get to hear the story of, and move around to play with"
If you are in crisis, vulnerable, or seeking true healing, please do not see this man, he is unsafe. read more