Abstract
In this case study, the author focuses on a victim of multiple abuse in her private life and of multiple violations illustrating how "helping" professionals become harmful and betray the trust implicit in psychotherapy. Details of the client's history are sketched, followed by a summary of the psychotherapeutic process; contacts with the ethics committee of the California Association of Marriage, Family, and Child Counselors; and the legal hearing by the Board of Behavioral Science Examiners of the Department of Consumer Affairs of the State of California. Most critical are the contacts between the client and supervisor since these hearings, which illustrate a reciprocal process of interpersonal influence and can be taken as representative of the redemptive life.