A celeb intercourse coach who misplaced a civil trial over claims he raped his affected person opened a clinic with one of many largest personal healthcare suppliers within the UK simply months earlier than the incident, court docket paperwork declare.
TV character Mike Lousada might be compelled to pay greater than £200,000 in damages to Ella Janneh, a former affected person of his, after courts discovered he regressed her right into a childlike state earlier than finishing up a number of sexual acts together with penetration with out consent in 2016.
Lousada is a outstanding movie star intercourse therapist who has been featured on nationwide TV programmes comparable to This Morning, in main press retailers, in movies for Durex and referenced within the e-book of feminist writer Naomi Wolf.
In accordance with proof submitted to the Excessive Court docket, Lousada additionally had connections with Spire Healthcare – one of many largest personal healthcare hospital suppliers within the UK.
In a press release to the court docket, he stated he had been approached by Spire Healthcare and opened a sexual wellness clinic of their Southampton Hospital in the identical 12 months he assaulted Ms Janneh.
The assertion stated: “In 2016 I used to be approached by Spire Southampton Hospital to arrange a sexual wellness clinic which I duly went on to do. Formal protocols had been put in place for this work and authorized by the hospital administration. Though the protocols in place particularly relate to the work undertaken on the sexual wellness clinic.”
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Lousada didn’t make additional statements on the character of his work on the clinic.
Nonetheless, in an additional assertion to the court docket for the claimant Ella Janneh, Lousada’s ex-wife Louise Manazati stated each she and Lousada introduced to Spire Healthcare their method referred to as “psychosexual somatic remedy” (PST). Her assertion stated PST on the time did “not embrace sexual touching or sexual penetration”.
She stated their method was introduced to Spire Healthcare, and paperwork which confirmed the presentation had been disclosed as proof to the court docket.
Ms Janneh contacted Lousada in 2016 searching for remedy for panic assaults she suffered throughout consensual sexual acts. She advised him she had been a sufferer of childhood sexual abuse.
In Ms Manazati’s assertion to the court docket she stated: “In our PST presentation to the Spire, we defined that PST was a mixed mind-body method for sexual wellness. We confirmed that we might assist shoppers who had suffered shock or trauma, together with sexual abuse.”
Lousada allegedly advised Spire Healthcare the strategies used of their remedy concerned osteopathy and “myofascial launch” which is lymphatic therapeutic massage. A security protocol was additionally introduced to Spire, in accordance with the assertion.
In accordance with Ms Manazati, the venture with Spire Hospital didn’t go forward because it was regarded as too “different”. Nonetheless, Lousada’s web site, taken down because the judgment on Wednesday, stated: “In early 2016 Mike and his workforce opened the UK’s first sexual wellness Clinic in a personal hospital at Spire Southampton Hospital.”
A separate Fb put up from Spire Healthcare from February 2016, now taken down, seems to hyperlink Lousada with the clinic.
Leigh Day solicitor Catriona Rubens stated: “The civil court docket heard Mike Lousada talk about his psychosexual somatics clinic on the Spire Hospital, and the affected person security protocols he developed for using contact with sufferers there. Given the choose’s findings about Mr Lousada’s observe and his disregard for moral codes, it’s proper that questions are requested of the due diligence carried out by healthcare suppliers who labored with Mr Lousada.
“As a result of there is no such thing as a obligatory regulation for therapists within the UK, Mr Lousada was not required to be registered with an outdoor regulator. It was subsequently much more crucial that any healthcare supplier searching for to work with him fastidiously scrutinised the ethics and security of his observe, notably if it concerned touching sufferers.
“The truth that a type of remedy is seen as extra “different” doesn’t alter the inherent energy a therapist wields over their affected person. There should be strict oversight by hospitals and clinics to make sure that energy can’t be abused.”
Spire Healthcare was contacted by The Impartial a number of occasions to touch upon the court docket claims Mike Lousada labored at its Southampton Clinic. Nonetheless, it didn’t reply to questions.
