Member

That said, I acknowledge the need for work to be done in this area. In Committee, I referenced the most recent large-scale study of counselling coercion and noted the lack of justice received by victims. There is a weakness in the complaints process, and part of that may be due to an absence in legislative means. If the problem is malign psychotherapists, perhaps more thorough oversight would prevent these individuals entering the profession in the first place. If the issue is complaints, perhaps creating a new offence is not as necessary as reforming the procedure by which clients are made aware of the current means of redress.