A counseling center tied to conversion therapy sent a cease and desist letter to our reporter.

In an attempt to hinder our reporting, the family counseling center told LOOKOUT staff to stop contacting them.

A counseling center tied to conversion therapy sent a cease and desist letter to our reporter.
A screenshot of the website for Family Strategies Counseling Center. The center has sent a cease and desist letter to LOOKOUT reporter Josephine Jaye McAuliffe after her work exposing ties between the organization and conversion therapists.

Lawyers representing a family therapy practice LOOKOUT has shown to use and promote conversion therapy have sent a cease and desist letter ordering our reporters to stop contacting the practice—or be faced with lawsuits.  

LOOKOUT identified therapists at Family Strategies Counseling Center who previously advertised themselves either as reparative therapists or as counselors willing to treat “unwanted same-sex attraction.” Reparative therapy is a term for conversion therapy that implies gay people can be fixed or “repaired.” The center’s original website domain was “healinghomosexuality.com.”

After reaching out to the center’s executive team and several of its therapists for comment through phone and email, the organization—through a lawyer—sent LOOKOUT a cease and desist letter on May 7. 

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