From Deseret News archives:
Center is sued over therapies
Cheryl Denise Ely Haws alleges in the civil suit filed in 4th District Court on Monday that after she sought help for depression and marital counseling from 1998 through 2000, center employees physically restrained her in painful holding therapy sessions that caused her to be nauseated, bruised and lose consciousness.
Attorneys for the Cascade Center, for therapists Lawrence Lee VanBloem and Jennie Murdock Gwilliam and for employee Kerry Max Park were unavailable for comment Monday evening.
"Holding therapy" has been described as physically restraining a person and then having the therapist do such things as press fists, fingers or elbows into different parts of the person's body to induce rage, which is an effort to make the individual verbalize deep-seated feelings and release anger.
"Re-birthing" has been described as wrapping an individual in sheets or blankets, then having one or more adults restrain or sit on the person, who is supposed to wiggle out.
Supporters claim these alternative therapy techniques are helpful, particularly for children with attachment disorder who cannot form appropriate bonds with caretakers.
The Utah State Legislature debated bills regarding holding therapy during its 2003 session but did not take action. One legislator vowed to reintroduce a bill banning it next year.
Haws alleges in the suit that during various times in 100 sessions she was led to believe she was homosexual, had been the victim of ritualistic, satanic sexual abuse as a child, that she needed to renounce her religious beliefs, and that it was "essential for her to continue her treatment at Cascade only."
The lawsuit also contends that during one session a Cascade therapist revealed confidential information about Haws to a third person that Haws was instructed to bring to a session for support, an alleged violation of professional ethics.
The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages and claims the treatment sessions at Cascade made Haws suicidal and broke up her 20-year marriage.
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