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LMFT Lisa Marie Sanchez asks board to reduce testing to monthly and remove dependency program requirement
Summary
At a Feb. 27 Board of Behavioral Sciences hearing, LMFT Lisa Marie Sanchez asked the board to modify probation — seeking monthly biological-fluid testing and removal of a twice-weekly dependency‑support program — citing compliance, treatment progress and financial hardship.
Lisa Marie Sanchez, a licensed marriage-and-family therapist, asked the California Board of Behavioral Sciences on Feb. 27 to modify her probation terms, requesting that biological-fluid testing be reduced to once per month and that a requirement to participate in a dependency‑support program be eliminated.
Deputy Attorney General Anahita Crawford summarized Sanchez’s licensing history and the disciplinary basis for probation: the hearing record shows Sanchez was convicted of driving under the influence in February 2023 with a blood-alcohol concentration the prosecutor described in the hearing materials as 0.159 percent; a stipulated settlement effective Dec. 14, 2023 placed Sanchez on a three‑year period of probation with conditions including psychotherapy, substance‑use education, abstinence, testing and participation in a dependency support program. Crawford told the…
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