A therapist accused of raping a client said his penis was “like a laser beam” that could “burn up trauma”, the High Court has heard.
Michael Lousada, who had a clinic in Belsize Park, used sexual penetration as a “therapeutic technique”. Mr Lousada is being sued by Ella Janneh, who has waived her right to anonymity, after the CPS did not press charges against him. Ms Janneh alleges she was assaulted during a therapy session. She told the court she visited him after suffering panic attacks during consensual s.e.x due to being abused as a child.
Mr Lousada, who has appeared as a guest on the TV show This Morning, denies the allegations, saying the sexual activity was consensual and part of “legitimate” therapeutic activity. In court documents, Ms Janneh alleged that Mr Lousada told her “his penis was, ‘like a laser beam’ and that it could ‘burn up trauma’, and that he should use his penis to absorb the trauma.
At the start of a six-day trial in London on Friday, Nina Ross, representing Ms. Janneh, said that Mr Lousada assaulted his client during a “body work” session after claiming to use penetration “as a therapeutic technique”.
She said: “The claimant’s case is that she did not consent to the sexual acts.
She did not have the mental capacity to consent… nor did she have the freedom to consent due to the power dynamic inherent in a therapeutic relationship, nor did she have all the information she needed to consent because he gave her no warning. Nothing about her behaviour at the time or since has suggested she consented.
“She has thought of the incident as a rape from the day it happened.
Source: BBC
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