Maria Pereyra, Arbour Counseling intern, fined for providing social work services

December 2, 2013

On September 5, 2013, Maria Pereyra entered into a consent agreement with the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Social Workers, agreeing to pay a the Board a fine of $1,000 for practicing social work without a license. Pereyra, who possesses a Masters degree in Social Work, was employed beginning in August 2005 at Arbour Counseling Services in Lawrence, Massachusetts in the position of “Clinical Therapist, Masters Level.” Prior to that, she’d been a Student Intern at Arbour. The Board’s document states that between approximately November 8, 2007 and January 1, 2008, Pereyra met with and provided social worker services to client “YR.”