Garda search of therapist's home for counselling notes 'an appalling abuse of power'

Therapist Bairbre Kelly said: 'The message being sent is clear: that therapeutic spaces are not safe.' File picture

Gardaí have been criticised after seizing the counselling notes from a therapist's home of a woman who reported she had been sexually assaulted.

The therapist said her home was searched even though she had never refused to comply with gardaí and hand over the notes, according to Therapists Against Harm, a support group for the profession.