Can anyone help with exactly what ethical violations are present?
During the course of my treatment between approximately 2023 and 2025, my therapist maintained ongoing communications with my parents concerning highly personal information that I disclosed during therapy sessions. After I reached the age of eighteen, these communications continued despite my status as an adult client entitled to independent confidentiality protections. My parents repeatedly referenced sensitive details, emotional disclosures, and characterizations that could only reasonably have originated from confidential therapeutic communications. Over time, these communications appeared to undermine my parents’ trust in me and contributed to a pattern in which I was portrayed as dishonest, manipulative, unreliable, or incapable of accurately describing my own experiences. I believe these communications improperly interfered with my autonomy, damaged my familial relationships, and were used to pressure or coerce me into continuing treatment. Matters escalated further after I submitted a lawful request for my records under HIPAA, at which point my therapist disclosed my records request to my parents and solicited their involvement regarding my access to my own treatment information instead of communicating solely with me. My therapist subsequently asserted that communications with my parents were “privileged and confidential” and indicated an intention to withhold records based on intake agreements executed during my minority. I have since revoked all prior authorizations and demanded that all communications with my parents cease immediately.
I need the records of the emails to prove wrongdoing and I don't think I have a case without them. Or do I?
Edit to add it was an LISCW-AP in SC