Is it ever consensual between a professional and their client?

When we went to introduce Lynette's Law for Maryland House Bill 33 on Tuesday, Julia Pitcher from Maryland Psychological Association came to oppose the bill. She stated how bill 33 was about consensual relationships between a professional and a client but from everything that I have read a patient can not consent to a relationship with their doctor, therapist, psychologist, or anyone who has power over them.

In the broken boundaries pamphlet we were given, it states that: "sexual exploitative relationship is sexual contact occurs between a helping professional and client in a relationship that, on the surface, may appear to be mutually consensual, but the patient's role makes it impossible for her or him to give meaning consent.  

http://www.lynetteslaw4maryland.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/BrokenBoundaries.pdf

As with a sexual relationship between a parent and their child, a teacher and their student, and/or a boss and their employee.  They have the power over you to make you feel it is ok to get into a relationship with them.  

This should not be a consideration with this bill as it is never a good idea to have sex with your client.  

The Professional boards in Maryland would like you to think that they could do a better job at disciplinary actions against their own and that a law is not needed.  They want you to think that they can protect the public better then a law.

This is further from the truth.  If the boards were doing their jobs then these professionals wouldn't be running rampant on their clients and taking advantage of them.

One such event is the case of Heather Sinclair and her therapist Richard Omeara.  The therapist took advantage of his patient, threaten her several times about reporting it, threaten her family.  Because of his threats the board allowed him to surrender his license as they feared that if they did anything else he would make good of those threats.  After, two months of him surrendering his license  he opened up a practice in his home and he is saying he is a health psychologist.  Check out one of his articles here:  http://www.examiner.com/article/exercise-and-weight-management  How are the Professional Boards helping the public when this monster is still out there doing what ever he wants?  Why do you think that this is ok?  We need a law against therapy abuse so that this doesn't continue to happen.  

This is not consensual sex by any means and these monsters need to be off the street.  All professionals who abuse their clients should be put in jail, don't you agree?