Dr Jessica Taylor #6 A personality rarer than her pearl

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SavannahS said:
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wow this person seems like an even bigger charlatan - doesn't even appear to be a licensed therapist, i didn't realise you can train in EMDR without any previous qualifications! Her website tagline is 'healing is the ultimate flex' - what a way to alienate probably around 75% of the people potentially seeking therapy in the first place by using obscure millenial internet language. i wish all these LOUD mental health 'advocates' would duck off
 
blurstoftimes said:
wow this person seems like an even bigger charlatan - doesn't even appear to be a licensed therapist, i didn't realise you can train in EMDR without any previous qualifications! Her website tagline is 'healing is the ultimate flex' - what a way to alienate probably around 75% of the people potentially seeking therapy in the first place by using obscure millenial internet language. i wish all these LOUD mental health 'advocates' would duck off
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Shes talking about having EMDR for herself and her experience of that. I think she’s a blogger/author.
 
BigYellow said:
She would never hand over her socials, considering you weren't even allowed a meeting or to post something on the VF accounts without approval.

She needs some sort of PR company to sort out her image and guide her socials, but let's be honest, she couldn't handle someone telling her how to act. It's probably better she is just herself as it allows people to see who she really is.
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That's not entirely true. Jess went into control freak mode when staff challenged her over the Sally Ann stuff, and that's what you would have seen when you worked there, but that was new.

Before you worked there, and for a long time, Jess was extremely hands off. One of the things I enjoyed about the job was the autonomy (obviously this was before I saw Jess's true colours).

We could all chose our own hours, what we worked on and were trusted to get on with it. It's one of the reasons I put up with the tit wages - that and I thought we were doing something good (hollow laugh).

Most of the time we were left to get on with it, including the social media - staff had access to Jess's Facebook account, plus the VF twitter and Instagram, and she said encouraging things about trusting us to make decisions. Bottom line, we were making her money, and making her org seem legit, I guess, plus - to my shame - I'd not seen through her bullshit at that point.

Back then, it was more of an issue that Jess wasn't around enough, and she was often unavailable on those occasions when we couldn't just muddle through and management input was needed to progress something.

You're absolutely right that she went full on control freak, a lot of what we saw in those final weeks was nuts! But it was new. It was a reaction, I think, to knowing she was losing control as we were seeing through her. She switched and the mask well and truly slipped.
 
Sounds like the SA thing had a profound effect. Sometimes I think, because she did make some sort of half arsed attempt with getting permissions and stuff, that she messed up through just complete inexperience but her total inability to accept being in the wrong or that she's not the great expert she claims, or any sort of criticism quickly escalates issues to extreme heights she can't get back from and so the more she has to double down.

The SA thing could have been stopped with a heartfelt apology and removal of all content from the book.
 
BigYellow said:
Sounds like the SA thing had a profound effect. Sometimes I think, because she did make some sort of half arsed attempt with getting permissions and stuff, that she messed up through just complete inexperience but her total inability to accept being in the wrong or that she's not the great expert she claims, or any sort of criticism quickly escalates issues to extreme heights she can't get back from and so the more she has to double down.

The SA thing could have been stopped with a heartfelt apology and removal of all content from the book.
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This is my sense about that affair. She made a mistake. Not having a therapeutic background or any particular training in working directly with vulnerable people, she didn't realise that Facebook messages and emails aren't enough to establish consent, and that when someone is in obvious crisis you have to be extra cautious when assessing their capacity to consent to research. But admitting that and taking steps to put it right would have been too much for her to bear. She just can't be wrong, ever. This is where I feel quite sorry for her - this sort of defensiveness looks arrogant but it often stems from a crippling sense of shame and inferiority. Unfortunately having her own problems is not reason or justification for hurting someone else as she did when she started bullying Sally Ann.

@witchinghour @Jessterday When did the marathon meetings begin? They sound pretty controlling and suffocating. Were they always a part of life at VF, or something that intensified as Jess lashed out at people calling her practice into question?
 
I find it a bit of a struggle to think that she wouldn’t have been aware of proper informed consent procedures having done a PhD that involved interviewing vulnerable women about sensitive topics. But I’m trying to put myself in that position - having only just completed a PhD rather than being part of an institution where ethical review and processes are the everyday norm for most research and anything involving data collection. Perhaps it wasn’t so much of a stretch for her to think that because the information she gathered from women for her book didn’t need formal ethical review because it wasn’t part of a formal research project? Or she thought she’d covered it via her internal VF ethical review (which probably didn’t exist in any formal sense). That aside, I totally agree the greatest problem is her refusal to sincerely apologise and rectify the situation (as much as possible) by removing all the content as requested. It’s a real shame she has to double down and caused so much pain to the women and that she herself can’t learn and grow from the mess she made.
 
It's sad she though the shame of admitting "I made a mistake as I'm not so experienced" was worse than potentially risking her own public image as a trauma expert. That equation doesn't add up.

She can admit her practise isn't the best ever always without taking a huge fall but unfortunately she is too proud. Probably can't say the words "I'm sorry."
 
BigYellow said:
That's nothing. I'd join a meeting at 9am and need to turn my camera off at 1 so I could make dinner.
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What were all these meetings about?!
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Lula-lee said:
I find it a bit of a struggle to think that she wouldn’t have been aware of proper informed consent procedures having done a PhD that involved interviewing vulnerable women about sensitive topics. But I’m trying to put myself in that position - having only just completed a PhD rather than being part of an institution where ethical review and processes are the everyday norm for most research and anything involving data collection. Perhaps it wasn’t so much of a stretch for her to think that because the information she gathered from women for her book didn’t need formal ethical review because it wasn’t part of a formal research project? Or she thought she’d covered it via her internal VF ethical review (which probably didn’t exist in any formal sense). That aside, I totally agree the greatest problem is her refusal to sincerely apologise and rectify the situation (as much as possible) by removing all the content as requested. It’s a real shame she has to double down and caused so much pain to the women and that she herself can’t learn and grow from the mess she made.
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I think it's partly that she isn't clever enough to understand and partly that she just doesn't care. Everything she does is for fame and money. Jess is this incredible revolutionary unique thinker paving the way for women everywhere - the thought that any woman would be less than thrilled let alone actively not want to be in her masterpieces never even crossed her mind. Besides, everything is all about Jess, she is THE main character, I doubt she even thinks about others as autonomous separate people with their own thoughts and feelings.
 
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True she doesn't display any empathy...and she isn't the main character .

She's ruining whatever credibility the phrase"trauma-informed" has retained....
 
SavannahS said:
True she doesn't display any empathy...and she isn't the main character .

She's ruining whatever credibility the phrase"trauma-informed" has retained....
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Anyone who truly knows what trauma informed care is will recognise that it JT that has no credibility not the phrase.

I also wonder if those procuring her services know she’s hardly any staff as she’s never tweeted or posted that she made the majority of her staff redundant at Xmas so who’s fulfilling her current contracts as it can’t be her she spends all her time on social media. 🤷🏼‍♀️ She was quick enough to brag she had a work force of about 20 but no word on the limited workforce she now has.
 
ZiggyStardust68 said:
I think this just sums up how fraudulent she is. 'The man' is Dr Gabor Mate, who has been writing on this topic since before she was born. Does the original poster not see that proves JT has no original thoughts and merely plagiarises others' ideas and theories...
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Gabor Mate is everything Jess isn't. Experienced, compassionate, eloquent, thoughtful, emotionally intelligent and empathetic. There is nothing grandiose about him and he doesn't say what he says for fame.

He has a lot of ideas that are considered left-field though, he isn't universally agreed with, but he doesn't present all his ideas like a teenage narcissist which helps his credibility somewhat.

Also, if you want lived experience of trauma, being born to Jewish parents during the holocaust is probably up there.
 
AccidentalAcademic said:
This is my sense about that affair. She made a mistake. Not having a therapeutic background or any particular training in working directly with vulnerable people, she didn't realise that Facebook messages and emails aren't enough to establish consent, and that when someone is in obvious crisis you have to be extra cautious when assessing their capacity to consent to research. But admitting that and taking steps to put it right would have been too much for her to bear. She just can't be wrong, ever. This is where I feel quite sorry for her - this sort of defensiveness looks arrogant but it often stems from a crippling sense of shame and inferiority. Unfortunately having her own problems is not reason or justification for hurting someone else as she did when she started bullying Sally Ann.

@witchinghour @Jessterday When did the marathon meetings begin? They sound pretty controlling and suffocating. Were they always a part of life at VF, or something that intensified as Jess lashed out at people calling her practice into question?
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I was definitely left to get on with it when it was just me. I wouldn't hear from her for weeks at a time. It caused me a fair bit of anxiety- not that I like micromanagement, but to be left without input or support in a customer facing role was really awful at times.
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I was distracted when I wrote the above. Long meetings didn't start until she hired more people, at the end of my tenure. Take that how you will.
 
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