Dear all,
Please, avoid at any costs this "specialist" who claimed to me to be an authority in family therapy, child psychology, and many other areas of mental and medical expertise.
She had seen my son since 2012 in Half Moon Bay , as we were looking for a child psychologist. In spite of the fact she was only licensed in California as a family therapist, she didn't clarify to the judge that she WAS NOT a child psychologist.
Moreover, in 2014, she tried to advise me in writing after my car accident to use a specific mental treatment but later withdraw her advice.
I was not a client of hers, nor did I ask for her advice.
Later on, after my son's physician cleared him from concussion, she insisted in writing again (confidentiality ?) that my son still had a concussion, affectively convincing him to quit his favorite sport soccer.
I had absolutely horrible experience with her. I would not call this person wise or professional at all!
Extremely opinionated, taking sides, and sending me humiliating e-mails with written insults, "playing" a role of the mother with no legal power to do so.
Can you believe that she stated to my kid that his family is in US when I tried to convince her that it was important for my son to see his family in Germany?
When I pointed to all these shortcomings, she retaliated against me by making a call, a "referral" against me to the CPS (child protective) services. Her referral was found inherently wrong!
She called again! Her referral was dropped again.
She interfered in the family court proceedings willingly and multiple times:
a) she wrote a letter to the judge (no release from mother was received or even requested by her in violation of her professional code)
b) In 2015, in spite of my disagreement, she wrote a letter to parent and attorneys stating that she would testify at the family court willingly?!
Only after she hired her own attorney, she was made aware of the fact that her conduct was in violation of her professional codes.
Mrs. Kingston didn't bother herself with confidentiality issue.
Her attorney actually wrote a long letter to both parents' counselors, excusing Mrs. Kingston from testifying and pointing to all the codes and laws preventing her from doing so.
Imaging a doctor, releasing his patient's medical and protected by law private information to the court in spite of your disagreement?
c) After she moved her office to Tahoe City, I asked her to stop therapy with my son which required consent of both parents as we had a joint custody. My son resided in San Mateo County
In spite of mother's refusal, she kept pushing telephone therapy for my son at My Residence in spite of my written refusal. Was she so desperate for clients to aggressively marketing herself as a tele-therapist ?
I can prove everything in this e-mail as she kept emailing me all her thoughts and opinions which I never asked her for.
My complaint to the California Board of Behavioral Science was dropped only because my ex-husband, who still pays for her phone appointments with my son, didn't sign a complaint.
Steer as far as possible from her. read more