The Truth About Maria Barretta at Life Solutions coaching
Individuals that have suffered abuse deserve respect and grace as they process their trauma. This process takes significant time to fully come to peace with the abuse they have suffered. But practitioners that purport themselves to be something they are not put the recovery of their patients in jeopardy. This site is dedicated to exposing the abuse of Maria Barretta at Life Solutions Coaching.
Details of Abuse by Therapist Maria Barretta
I met Maria Barretta while visiting Copper Harbor to camp. I really feel in love with the city and was trying to figure out if I wanted to stay there. It was not an easy decision for me as it would mean being almost 700 miles away from everyone and everything I knew.
Maria befriended me under the guise of being a therapist willing to help with some of the trauma I had endured due to family members. While I was trying to make good decisions for myself and feeling things out, when it did not fit her plan for my life, she became vile and cruel very quickly. I had been in Copper Harbor all of two weeks. That does not obligate me to stay, nor does it give her the right to dictate my life and actions.
I had made a friend in Copper Harbor and hung out twice with this individual. Maria felt that my wanting to leave Copper Harbor was hurting this person. I let this individual know my plans, but my relationships are my private affairs. That did not stop her from then being incredibly manipulative and abusive stating that because I was contemplating leaving Copper Harbor that I was hurting the person I’d known for two days. And because I’m doing this, I’m just like my abusive mother (who had a legal obligation for my health and well-being during the time of my abuse). In fact, she said I’m even worse than my mother. Because I want to leave, I also am choosing not to heal and therefore I am fake and disguising myself as a victim. How I choose to process and when I choose to process is up to me. Any good therapist knows this. A therapist can help guide me, but it is my choice. Trying to make me feel bad about myself and my actions gave her power over me and made her feel superior to me. It allowed her to hurt me using the little information I had told her about my life to victimize me.
Here's a snippet of the last bit of our conversation. That day she sent non-stop walls of text, but to protect the privacy of others, they are not included at this moment. Nothing I did or said would ever justify this treatment:
When Maria sent those messages to me I was still in town but soon left. But I am not interested in shielding abusers anymore. Maria felt that I was hurting someone, so in her mind, the solution to this was not to simply say I disagree with your actions and choices, but to cut me as deeply as possible. She had only known me two weeks, so for her to think that she knows what is best for me is an insane notion. When a narcissist is not getting the response they want, it's either love-bombing or extreme verbal abuse that the victim receives. That's not a friend, let alone a therapist. I received all this hate for knowing a person for two days and trying to decide if staying was right for me.
The reason I feel so strongly about letting others know about my experience is because I've had had terrible health providers, one of which over-prescribed me to the point where a new therapist said that it was remarkable that my heart had not stopped beating. It is dangerous to have an unfit provider supposedly helping your through your struggles. So, I challenge Maria to take responsibility for her actions. I have decided to use this experience as practice for confronting other abusers in my life.