Woman Accuses "Sexual Healing" Therapist of Rape During Therapy Session.

Ella Janneh has accused her former therapist, Michael Lousada, of raping her during a therapy session. Janneh is suing the psychosexual "bodywork" therapist after she visited him to help with her childhood trauma; however, he allegedly assaulted her.

A woman is suing well-known "sexual healing" therapist Michael Lousada for allegedly raping her during a session.

Michael Lousada, whose clinic was located in Belsize Park, is known to use sexual penetration as a "therapeutic technique" in his practice.

However, Ella Janneh is suing the unconventional therapist for rape after the CPS failed to press charges against him. Janneh claims the assault took place during a therapy session with Lousada, who she was visiting due to suffering from panic attacks during sexual intercourse due to being abused as a child.

During what she believed would be an ordinary bodywork session, Janneh claims the therapist penetrated her without her consent.

Court documents also revealed that Lousada told Janneh that "his penis was like a laser beam" and that it could "burn up trauma". The documents also stated that during the session, Lousada suggested that he should "use his penis to absorb the trauma".

At the beginning of the six-day trial in London on Friday, Janneh's representative said:

"The claimant's case is that she did not consent to the sexual acts.

"She did not have the mental capacity to consent… nor did she have the freedom to consent due to the power dynamic inherent in a therapeutic relationship, nor did she have all the information she needed to consent because he gave her no warning.

"Nothing about her behaviour at the time or since has suggested she consented.

"She has thought of the incident as a rape from the day it happened."

Lousada has denied the allegations and insists the sexual activity in the session was "consensual" and that the penetration is a part of "legitimate" therapeutic activity.