Freewill, I'm just not getting why you need to quit therapy with the therapist that you have felt good about until now, because s/he goes to the same church as the other one. Do you trust your current therapist at all? Would you consider talking to your therapist about this and then making a decision after discussing it?

Unless you have signed a release, they can't talk about you. I've never heard therapists at church discussing their clients there. They are at church for their own spiritual needs, not to talk shop, and they generally need a break from work.

About your old therapist being sued, that's an icky feeling, but maybe a relief that you got out when you did. I've been in a similar situation too. One of my past therapists did seem a little weird to me, and one time he came to my house too, and that felt wrong. After he had terminated me and some time had passed, I heard that he was being sanctioned for having an affair with a client. For anyone else reading - therapists who go to your house may be a big red flag. Although there was another one who visited at my house, and that was different because he worked at my husband's office, and they were friends, and it was before we got into a therapeutic relationship. After I was a client, he wouldn't accept a dinner invitation. At the time, I was hurt about that because of the loss of friendship. It would have been better to go to someone else for therapy, but choices were limited in that place, and I had issues with trusting someone I didn't know. BTW, he knows my current therapist too. I'm not sure that the previous therapist knows that I'm going to the current one, but he probably figured it out when he saw me waiting in the hallway to see the new therapist, and he asked if I was there to see someone, and then asked if I was there to see someone other than him.