This was hands-on therapy.
Two women say a Manhattan psychotherapist’s sexual healing wrecked their lives.
Alison Upright and Deborah Glazer, both of Bergen County, NJ, had been seeing Thomas West Perron, a nurse practitioner, for counseling for more than a year.
Perron, 40, had a sexual relationship with each of the ladies, they charge in separate lawsuits filed in Manhattan Supreme Court last week, accusing him of using “an unacceptable, and, in fact, harmful, method of treatment.”
The relationships left the women with “debilitating depression, mental anguish, [and] sleeplessness,” according to court papers.
The women are also suing St. Paul’s Center of New York on West 34th Street, where Perron worked and where the therapy sessions took place.
Perron was fired in May, according to St. Paul’s Center founder Jeannemarie Baker, who said she was not aware of the sex charge.
“I don’t know if those allegations have a basis or not. I do know he wasn’t able to do the work, and we let him go,” Baker said.
Additional reporting by Erin Calabrese
