The emails were counted in my case. Everything I had was counted: his summary of the records and all the stuff I had on him such as emails, phone messages and the records of other therapists who saw me and him together.
Realistically, you should expect that whatever she will send you will be written in the best way possible to cover her (there is no doubt about that) and then you'll collect whatever you've kept like phone and text messages, emails etc. This will be all you will have. Send it all to the regulatory body and leave it at that. Detach yourself from the outcome because you won't be able to control it. This is what I did and I am glad I did that. I would've driven myself crazy if I'd tried to control the outcome of the investigation. It was important to me to report the T and to get the board involved, but I had no desire to waste my precious life energy to make sure that they punish him properly, and I didn't have any control over that process anyway.
Do what you can, but don't try to control the outcome. After you report her, try to find ways to move on with your life. I've known victims of abusive therapists who dedicated their entire lives trying to punish their abusers. They seemed very miserable to me. While they were working obsessively on "serving justice" 24/7, life was passing by and they couldn't even notice it passing..they never stopped to look around and to enjoy what life was offering in the present moment..never took time to "smell the roses" so to speak..
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