License of Long Beach Therapist Revoked

State officials have revoked the license of a Long Beach therapist who allegedly began having sex with a patient he was treating for depression, then tried to bribe a minister to dissuade the woman from suing him.

According to State Board of Psychology documents, investigators found that Charles T. Stockton, a family therapist since 1979, abruptly stopped treating the patient in May 1991 even though his own diagnosis was that she required more medical care. The next day he invited her to his private quarters and began kissing her, the documents say.

The therapist and the woman had sex at least two times over the course of the next two months, documents say, and continued a social relationship into the fall of that year. That relationship ended once the woman told another counselor about Stockton’s actions.