Laura Nielson Denke, LMHC LMFT

I was referred to Laura Denke through a friend. My husband and I saw her multiple times for marital counseling in the fall of 2013. Her sessions were helpful despite some mild annoyances: on three occasions, there were scheduling snafus due to her mistakingly double booking an appointment time and on one occasion, at the beginning of my appointment, she refilled her in-​office water fountain with bottled water instead of being seated and listening to me.
But the compelling reason for my review regards two individual sessions I had with Laura in the summer of 2014. She diagnosed me with a condition without having a full understanding of my situation before doing so — which means that I was misdiagnosed.
But most egregiously, she shared my diagnosis, opinions about my situation, and loads of information regarding my marriage and pending divorce with a third party, without my consent, the aftermath of which led to an explosive child custody issue. In fact, she didn’t discuss my diagnosis with me until I raised the matter in a session with her, after I learned of the diagnosis from the third party to whom she disclosed it.
I am in the process of reporting her to the boards through whom she is professionally licensed for medical malpractice — breach of doctor/​patient confidentiality, which is a reportable offense.