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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Rebecca Thomas

Labour’s Dawn Butler backs regulation of counsellors after ‘horrific’ TV sex therapist rape case

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Former Labour MP Dawn Butler has pledged to push the government to regulate all therapists in the UK after watching a “horrific” civil rape case against a TV sex therapist.

Ella Janneh, 37, has been awarded more than £200,000 in damages after she brought a suit against Mike Lousada alleging a prominent sex therapist over claims he raped and sexually assaulted her during a therapy session in 2016.

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