February 2013 Texas mental health counselor disciplinary actions

February 12, 2013

On February 12, 2013, the Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors took the following disciplinary actions:

Accepted the voluntary surrender of counselor Carolyn Whiteside’s license, for failure to maintain professional boundaries.

Placed Steve Sutherland on one year probated suspension with stipulations for failure to set and maintain professional boundaries.

Placed intern Carolyn Brewer on probated suspension for making false, misleading and deceptive claims about services and qualifications. Brewer represented herself as a licensed professional counselor and received payment as such from clients though she was only licensed as an intern.

Placed Brenda Markle on six months probated suspension with stipulations for failure to release confidential treatment records in a timely manner to the father of a client after he’d submitted a written request.

Reprimanded Nelson Nagle for failure to release client records in a timely manner to a client upon the client’s request.