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I'm honestly devastated. This was my first time doing therapy. I saw this therapist for 4 months (2x a week). I felt so close to her. We shared our favorite books and art with each other. She was the first and only person I talked to about the sexual abuse I experienced at the hand of my parent, and she said I was brave for telling her about it. She said that she believed me, and that nothing was too much for therapy.
She said she felt more than equipped to deal with my history of abuse, and she encouraged me to continue speaking about it.
She said I reminded her of her best friend, and that the level of attunement we had was real. She said that I was a rare person. And then a week later she fired me. "It's not possible for us to continue our work together". I never got a termination session, referrals, or an explanation. My psychiatrist reached out to her and asked her to send me an email acknowledging the emotionally charged work we did together. She never responded.

I did some internet searching and I found that she lied to me about her experience, she claimed that she had been a therapist for four years but she actually had gotten her BBS license around a year ago. I am just so devastated. Did she lie to me about everything?, Did she ever care about me? Why was I so easy to discard?

EDIT: Some people have mentioned that pre licensed professionals can work even before receiving their BBS license. Wanted to add that as context for my last paragraph.

Currently dealing with my third illegal eviction by my landlord's awful son. Lots of context here.

Ive been here 14 years, the house has no heat, mold, rotting floorboards, and substandard power. I live in a single family home with 3 bedrooms and previously always had 2 roommates but the house has been so bad and he refuses to fix things so I live alone and pay half the rent on agreement w his dad. Its been like this for 5 years.

My actual landlords is in his 90s and I had decided to just wait until he passed to deal with stuff and not drag him through court etc. Son is an ahole and I knew he would pull some nonsense so Ive always kept receipts, recorded everything etc. Things are contentious, he lives next door, daily unpermitted and unabated construction blah blah blah. Hes making my life hell and doing it on purpose. He is lying in court and just doesnt care.

My question is, as I go through this and afterwards how on earth am I supposed to find someone to rent to me? Ive been in a rent controlled place over a decade, never been late. Self employed/freelance artist and my income varies a lot. Ive been unable to really work or leave since this is going on as he will pull something.

When I came home last time he had cut the power to my art studio and garage, blocked off my access to my backyard and built a fence right behind my back door. No notice, nothing. Its so bad ive made a social media account to shame him into stopping the harassment and its actually worked so far, thankfully. But whats the next step here? I clearly will not be getting a reference lol. Whats my best bet to find a new place to live despite all this drama?

I need to stay in los angeles but I do travel for projects about 1/3 of the year or a little more.

Ideas? Opinions? Experiences? All much appreciated!

I usually go solo to WHAMMY! Analog Media (a VHS store by day, microcinema by night) to watch independent movies (movies that don't get to be played at larger screens in general).
Anyway tomorrow they're playing Veerana, an Indian erotic supernatural horror film and I was wondering if anyone else is also going and wants to go together, to this or other screenings.
Link to event: https://www.whammyanalog.com/events/veerana-1988
Link to trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM_n6SmJXcU

Public comment:

Carolyn Cooper sl resident - 

Talking about the homeless encampment on the median near the 101 entrance in the road. Reporting it to 311 with no luck. "It’s a liability and accident waiting to happen. "

Scott from Slia is also trying to get that area cleaned up / help get those people housed. It’s very dangerous for everyone involved. “A tragedy waiting to happen”

Theresa from Hollywood sunset free clinic 

Open 5 days a week currently 4-6 hrs a day. They have a new doctor. lots of demand. They are going to start their counseling department again, probably next month. Thrift store berda paradise supports the Hollywood sunset free clinic. 

They also offer acupuncture. - picture attached below.

Dylan Kendall candidate for cd13. Thanks for organizing the forum last week.

Sarah rascon - candidate for state district 26 alongside maebe. Helped secure ranger services at elephant hill. Inspired to not settle for the status quo. Ballots are out and due by June 2

Government reports**:**

Slo Ramirez - 1 rape, 2 robberies, 1 aggravated assaults, 15 thefts, 1 fraud, 7 simple assaults, 2 sex crimes, 15 vandalisms

Series of sexual assaults happening at the reservoir - Tesla and Armstrong, covered by cd4. There are police offers on horseback patrolling the reservoir. An investigation was not launched immediately bc no victims came forward. The victims expressed bad previous experiences with police officers. They want to tell people they can accommodate speaking with same sex officers. They tracked down 4 victims. First incident march 25, reported to rec and park and they did not launch an investigation. Another victim was attacked at night, 3rd victim was April 17. Since media exposures, there have been no more incidents. There are also undercover officers patrolling the area almost 24 hrs a day. Bikes, patrol, horse officers. 

Reports of teenagers putting peanut butter all over their body?

Community search party - a local teen is helping people locate their unhoused family members in la, SLO Ramirez is aiding in this effort.

Cd4 field deputy Hannah Jaeger

Budget season - mayor bass released her budget on the city administrators officer’s website final budget must be approved before July 1, simultaneously there is charter reform moving through the committee. 

The office is working with LAPD to address the assaults at the reservoir. Working with DWP and cd13 to repair light outages nearby. LACC teams are doing brush clearance.

2800 Glendale report / update - at the end of April, they issued and order to comply to the property owners. They have until may 28 - 45 days to respond and they need to remove all visible violations (rubbish, debris, graffiti), and they need to apply for a new supplemental application. They will be assigned a fee is they do not comply and down the line the case could be assigned to the city attorney office to escalate it further. The issue is posted on the building. 

May 9 - Griffith park palooza

May 16 6:30 - John Marshall free community movie night 

Cd13 new field deputy Karla Martinez

Working on an illegal property on the red car trail off of riverside

Descanso off of sunset discuss concerns over the medians

Again street light outages 

She said cd13 will be meeting with the city attorney office regarding Los Globos this month

Assembly District 52 Field Representative, Nick Thell

Updates on upcoming bills 

Upcoming events pictured attached below —

The zone zero informational event is quite important. The assembly member is a neutral party in this event, bringing the community together to voice their concerns / ask questions about the upcoming regulations. 

Neighborhood empowerment advocate, Lorenzo Briceno 

Lorenzo.briceno@lacity.org

Conrado from Senator Durazo office district 26 

She represents 1 million people

Issues w medical, dmv, consumer complaints, caltrans, etc contact their office

They liasoning about Los Globos to ABC - they are investigating. 

There is a group that is transforming the hospital into a state of art continuum for mental health services. The group is applying for two main grants from the state. 135 million dollars to help fund the project - 2 pavilions - 800+ beds, mental health rehab center, psychiatric health facility, social rehab faculty, residential crisis unit. 124 adult residential disorder treatment beds. Recovery hospital and outpatient treatment series hopefully completed by the end of next year. 

St annes family services rampart village - received a grant for 20 million dollars for women impacted by substance abuse, prenatal facility completed by 2028. Funded by bonds that the community voted for.

Echo park pride closing down lemonyne st sat may 23 12-9pm

Administrative

Financial picture to Date

-explanation of breakdown of how our costs /budgets work - trying to make the most money go towards NPGs and the least towards administrative costs. Outlining what budgets have been allocated and what we have spent so far.

10-12k should be allocated to NPGs for tonight - anything under 10k gets rolled over to our next fiscal year, anything over gets returned to the city. (There is a chance we will be able to roll over more, but DONE will be voting on it this week and we are unclear as to what the result will be. There was a request made that next time DONE vote on this before the last meeting before our fiscal year ends.)

New Business 

-CIS passed regarding increase in funding for Rec and Parks and CIS for adjustments to the mayor’s proposed budget

-CD4 issued a notice to comply with the 2800 Glendale Blvd stalled project, so the motion was tabled until the departmental order is finished. 

-Mimou proposed CIS for more police patrol for dedicated LAPD squad car along SL to curb sexual harassment. Arguments were made that we may not need more because patrols were already increased at the reservoir and there is not evidence that crime is up. A community member spoke up expressing he wants more police. Silver lake, a neighborhood with 40k people does not have a dedicated officer. Regardless, we are among the safest neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Motion did not pass

-Maggie Smart-McCAbe NPG for up for $4965 to support the development of a community-led native plant garden and public programming initiative at theparkway along Lucile Avenue and Hoover Street, transforming an underutilized space into a vibrant,accessible, and ecologically beneficial neighborhood resource working with Young People to the Front, looking to hire 2 resident gardeners from their program to offer professional development opportunities. Also working with Altadena seed library and educating on soil remediation.  

-in total, around 12k was granted in NPGs additionally to Jessica Caloza’s office for their Zone Zero regulations event, to the Rose Scharlin Cooperative Nursery School to update their pipes/plumbing, and to the Silver Lake Shorts foundation. 

We hope to see you at our meeting next month, or sub committee meetings throughout the month.

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Bring your questions! If you can't make it (it's free and you don't need to register or reserve a spot), give me your questions in the comments and I'll add them to the list of future "Ask Silver Lake" topics!

Does anyone know what happened to them and if they're ever opening up again? So bummed.

How to handle? Has anyone ever successfully shut one down?

Anyone know?