A North Miami Beach marriage therapy intern got fined for alleged inappropriate behavior
Letting a marriage and family therapy client sit on your lap, throw her leg over you and hold your hands is not appropriate behavior for a therapist, Florida’s governing board told a North Miami Beach therapist intern.
And the Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling emphasized this to Moshe Reznitsky by fining him $3,000 plus a $4,346 reimbursement of costs to the Florida Department of Health.
The Final Order was issued on Wednesday.
Reznitsky also must take 15 hours of continuing education classes, including a five-hour class on ethics and boundary issues.
Reznitsky’s a registered marriage and family therapy intern and a mental health counseling intern. According to the Department of Health’s administrative complaint, from May 2019 through July 2019, Reznitsky treated a woman with whom he exceeded the bounds of professionalism by:
▪ Touching her cheek.
▪ Holding hands with her.
▪ Treating her at his home.
▪ Letting her sit next to him and allowing her to put her leg on him.
▪ Letting her sit on his lap.
By the settlement agreement, Reznitsky officially doesn’t deny or admit the accusations.
This story was originally published March 9, 2021 at 11:54 AM.
