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Jonathon Walker began to communicate with a client via email outside treatment sessions in 2014, a lawyer for the Psychology Board of Australia has told Vcat.Jonathon Walker began to communicate with a client via email outside treatment sessions in 2014, a lawyer for the Psychology Board of Australia has told Vcat.
Vcat heard Walker, who represented himself, had declined to take part in the proceeding, and instead had made extensive written submissions to Vcat, much of which was irrelevant to the allegations against him, and some of which was prejudicial towards him and needed to be disregarded. During the relationship, he sent her the personal treatment details of seven of his clients in emails that he wanted her to proofread, the tribunal heard. Walker said in his submissions to the tribunal that there were no identifying details about his clients in those emails.
Joosten told the tribunal that even if the treatment relationship eventually ended, there were significant other power imbalances, including their age difference and the information he had about her mental health and personal situation.Even after the treatment relationship ended, correspondence provided to the tribunal revealed he continued to diagnose her and suggest treatments to her, Joosten said.
Joosten said it was the board’s submission that Walker tried to influence and interfere with Ahpra’s investigation. The tribunal was presented with a letter sent by Walker to the woman in relation to an unrelated separate civil case the pair were involved in. In that letter, Walker told the woman that if she withdrew her statement to Ahpra, it would result in a settlement of the unrelated civil proceeding.
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