Lyn Pedersen, an Addiction and Recovery Specialist, arranged to send my daughter away to rehab when she was struggling last summer 2020. The reason I want to make this review known is that Lyn should not have been involved in helping to treat my daughter since Lyn had an affair with my husband of 30 years - I am still married now. Lyn was also married and the two of them destroyed both my marriage and her own one. Again, my husband and I are still technically married at this time.
Therefore, for Lyn Pedersen to make arrangements or be involved in ANY way with my daughters treatment is a CONFLICT of INTEREST. She cannot offer to help a person after being directly involved in destroying that persons family unit.
Lyn never discussed the treatment with me- I am her mother, and whats worse when I was finally informed that my daughter was sent away by my husband, I was not able to speak with my daughter. The facility would not let me, as Lyn had arranged the treatment without including me in the process.
While my daughter was 21 at the time, but she was very much dependent on me for everything. She was secretly drinking and using drugs and decided to try to live with her father for a change (at Lyns house) which is another red flag. Lyn was trying to have a personal relationship with my daughter - again making it a PROFESSIONAL CONFLICT of INTEREST.
Someone in Lyns capacity should not have been arranging for Recovery Services to help my daughter- given the circumstances of our family- Lyn and my husband were actually caught cheating by this same child that she then involved herself in for treatment. I have been in recovery for 3 decades and am perfectly capable of making arrangements, as her mother, together with her father, who is also in recovery.
It was unprofessional, inappropriate and a conflict of interest for Lyn Pedersen to handle any recovery process for a struggling 21 year old after being directly responsible for destroying that same childs family.
It got worse, Lyn then included herself in the family sessions part of my daughters recovery at the rehab - while excluding me, her mother and closest person in her life for the previous 21 years. Lyn had just met my daughter only months before - she is not family. Lyn had no business involving herself in family sessions, conf calls, meetings, diagnosis and moving my daughter to 2 separate facilities over 10 months. I wasnt able to have any contact with my daughter for 9 months, whereas I was always extremely close with prior to Lyns involvement. The situation is still the same- I am not included in my daughters recovery process while Lyn Pedersen is.
I have reported this very serious matter to the State of Connecticut Social Workers Ethics Board and I have a criminal lawyer beginning a legal complaint. read more