Dear Virginia Department of Health Professions,
I’ve gone back and forth about filing a complaint with you about my ex therapist Aaron Gleaves, LPC, license number 0701014491, ever since he terminated me on December 19, 2024.
I’ve researched how to write a professional complaint. Stick to the facts and leave emotions out of it.
I’ve compiled facts and written documentation. I have witnesses, including other therapists who helped me as best they could in the aftermath.
I only lack a realistic resolution to ask you for. I know my complaint might get dismissed no matter what I say or what I want, but it’s still important to propose a resolution when making a complaint.
I don’t want you to take his license, not that you would. I don’t know what else he might want to do to help people that he’ll need his license for.
I don’t want you to make him apologize. I don’t value forced apologies.
I want him to understand how bad he hurt me by getting rid of me like he did. I want him to understand how deep my wound is from him terminating me abruptly and then ignoring me and then threatening to sue me if I didn’t stop posting about my experience.
I don’t see how you can give me resolution. I don’t see how you can make him understand and have empathy for me, so it feels pointless to ask for those.
I want to feel better. I don’t know how. I wanted him to help me with that, but he won’t. Even if you ordered him to he wouldn’t be doing it willingly.
So you see I have facts and I can write even more plainly than this without any emotion, which is how I’d write my complaint.
But I don’t want any resolutions that you can give me. Unfortunately I want things that you can’t do anything about.
That’s why I’m posting this on here where you won’t see it and it won’t count as a formal complaint.
That’s why I suffer and suffer and I write, but I never send you my letter.
Sincerely,
Heather
