A celebrity sex therapist who lost a civil trial over claims he raped his patient opened a clinic with one of the largest private healthcare providers in the UK just months before the incident, court ...

Insisting that he uses sexual penetration as a "therapeutic technique," Michael Lousada maintained that he did nothing wrong. However, his former client, Ella Janneh, has just won her civil suit ...

A therapist accused of raping a client said his penis was "like a laser beam" that could "burn up trauma", the High Court has heard. Michael Lousada, who had a clinic in Belsize Park, used sexual ...

A woman who accused a therapist of raping her during a therapy session has been awarded more than £200,000 in damages after winning a civil case against him. Ella Janneh sued Michael Lousada, 57, over ...

A woman who claims she was raped by her sex therapist says her eight-year fight for justice has exposed gaps in the UK’s “broken” system, amid fears rogue practitioners are working unchecked. Ella ...

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Eight years ago, Ella Janneh’s life was on an upward trajectory. Her 30th birthday was on the horizon, her finances were buoyant, her career was blossoming, and she had made enormous strides in ...

Former Labour MP Dawn Butler has pledged to push the government to regulate all therapists in the UK after watching a “horrific” civil rape case against a TV sex therapist. Ella Janneh, 37, has been ...