Oregon counselor Judith Vergamini surrenders license relative to biased custody report

September 12, 2011

On August 13, 2010, Judith S. Vergamini surrendered her professional counselor license to the Oregon Board of Licensed Counselor and Therapists for a number of violations of Oregon statutes and administrative laws, relative to her rendering of a parenting plan in a child custody matter, in order to provide the father with access to the couple’s child. The Board’s order describes Vergamini’s biased reporting:

In preparing her Parenting Time Report for the court, Vergamini failed to include the mother’s criminal past but included the father’s DUI conviction.

In preparing a later addendum to her original report, she included the mother’s arrest and conviction record but did not include a discussion of the nature of the those arrests and convictions, where were of a nature relevant to the custody evaluation (the original report however contained a detailed discussion of alleged improprieties committed by the father).

Vergamini conducted a home study of the father’s residence to ensure it provided a safe and appropriate environment for the child but never conducted the same assessment for the mother’s residence.

Vergamini never addressed the mother’s housing situation and how it might influence the custody decision.

Source: Settlement Agreement and Stipulated Final Order in the Matter of Judith S. Vergamini, LPC, LMFT, Case No. 2009-014, DOJ File No. 108001-GB0658-09, Before the Oregon Board of Licensed Professional Counselor and Therapists.

Comments
EILEEN RASMUSSEN
2012-02-17 19:05:45
DID HER HUSBAND HAVE ANY INVOLVEMENT? HER HUSBAND, JEROME VERGAMINE NOW PRACTICE WITH LINN COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT IN ALBANY, OREGON. HE IS CURRENTLY MY GRANDCHILD'S DOCTOR. MY GRANDCHILD IS IN FOSTER CARE. SHOULD I HAVE CONCERNS.

GRANDMA

Gena Konrad-Cone
2015-07-16 22:32:04
This lady is so completely biased and wrong! I was one of her last cases before she surrendered her licence... I had no idea what charges she was facing when my lawyer trustingly okayed her services. But I was not only robbed of the thousands of dollars I paid for her to do a biased and incompetent job, but she also went over the generously allotted time from the court and I had to come up with more money to extend our case!!!! Several years later I paid thousands more for an actually qualified doctor who ended up vindicating me as a mother with a second custody evaluation. If I could only recoup the significant financial and painfully emotional losses caused by the confusing bias of this sweet but highly unprofessional and unethical woman. My life and my children's lives are still financially hurt by Judy Vergamini's irresponsible and unprofessional practices. While I got custody of my children back, I never got alimony or child support, and I have several years to go with the youngest. This is not fair.

CHARLES BROOKS
2020-07-28 10:44:35
I have got to say that I had a really good experience with her and her husband. I have a child that had some serious issues. After couple of months I started seeing some real improvements. He stayed in therapy for over a year and he ended up graduating from high school with a good GPA and has become a responsible adult. I talked to 2 other parents, 1 of whom recommended her and they, like me, had very good experiences.

J Doe
2020-12-06 23:54:27
Spouse was mandated to participate in a 3-6-9 program created by her. The children%u2019s social & sporting activities were placed as higher priorities then visitation with their parent, children were in middle school & allowed to choose whether they wanted to participate in visitation with their parent, as a result of this, the relationship dissolved between the children & parent. Parent was still required by law to pay the full amount of court ordered child support despite only seeing children 1-2 times at most per year.

D Doe
2023-04-08 21:54:27
this women did many things to hurt my grandchildren her put them back in their abusers hands alone my grandson trusted her and told her stuff the very next time she had a app with the abuser a few days later that women had tape recorded my grandsons session and she played it back to the abuser my grandson then had to go no forced unsupervised to be alone with him to this day my grandchildren never trustanyone who says you can trust me i am here to help you

person
2024-01-29 18:51:52
her and her husband were the most evil people I have come in contact with in Oregon stay far away from her husband he is even worse

person
2024-01-29 18:54:38
the most evil couple stay away from her husband he was a part of everything that was going on for years no one would listen to me back then they hurt so many children

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