My name is Dr. Bunny Vreeland and really this happened to me.  I am a board certified clinical hypnotherapist with a Ph. D. in Hypnotherapy. I have been seeing clients for 17 years and have never had a complaint; although, a few times, I did return a client’s money because I didn’t feel I was the right therapist for them.

Here is what happened – In November 2006 I saw a female client for a stress related skin condition over the course of several months. During the five-hypnotherapy sessions the skin problem gradually went away. She insisted on coming back for a 6th session because she told me she had a ‘special request’ she wanted to discuss with me. When she returned in March 2007, she asked me to hypnotize her so that she could ‘forget’ something she planned to do, so that it wouldn’t show up on a lie detector test if she were required to take one! In other words, she was asking me to be an accomplice to a crime!

Needless to say, I refused. At that point, she started screaming and yelling that if I didn’t help her, she would destroy me. I asked her to leave and she finally did, threatening me over and over that, “You will be sorry. You haven’t seen the last of me.”

She called me every day for weeks, screaming, threatening and yelling. I have caller ID and kept the recorded messages, which I later turned over to the police. After a few weeks of her calls, all of a sudden there was nothing. No calls at all. Then, after a few more weeks of silence, she called me to tell me she and her husband were moving out of town and she ‘forgave’ me. I gave a sigh of relief and wished her well, said ‘good-bye’ and hung up.

I was initially unaware of the havoc she would eventually wreak. It wasn’t until May 15 (my birthday) when I ‘Googled’ my website, that I found over a thousand complaints that she had filed!

This is how it was done – she created a number of false internet identities, even being so bold as to use names taken from the numerous positive testimonials on my own website. Using false e-mail addresses and telephone numbers she began to register complaints on websites like RipOffReport.com and ComplaintsBoard.com, making it appear that many people had suddenly begun to complain about my practice.

On a couple of the complaints, she even posted a false ‘conversation’ between her and ‘me’ with her playing both roles and enacting me as an uncaring and very nasty person. She ‘accused’ me of a litany of unbelievable charges including ‘practicing medicine without a license.’ (I don’t practice medicine. Hypnotherapists never practice medicine.)

She even went so far as to register complaints with the Better Business Bureau where I have had AAA standing for years. Upon examination, the BBB found the complaints were registered using false information. The unfortunate result of this venomous soliloquy was that the false internet complaints rose to the very top of the search results pages, even above my website. What a shock!

When I later mentioned this experience to a realtor friend of mine, he asked if it was the very same person and told me he had the same situation with her! We went to the police and were told that there was nothing they could do. We talked with a total of five attorneys about this and they all said the same thing – we would have to prove the complaints came from her. I have a friend who is a private investigator who went to work on this case, which is still pending.