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July 21, 2021 – While Insight executive director Clint Stonebraker did not respond to the allegations of racism and homophobia previously reported by YES! Weekly, he did to this one. “Insight has a duty to report any claims of sexual abuse or rape whether they are brought up in group or individual counseling,” wrote Stonebraker in a May 21 email. “There are no exceptions. No Insight counselor engages in any form of victim shaming.”
“Note Clint’s phrasing,” said Nickerson last week. “Yes, they have that legal obligation, but they don’t comply with it. They didn’t in my case, or the cases of 57 other people who participated in our anonymous mass complaint.”
Nickerson was referring to an online mass complaint form at Enthusiastic Sobriety Abuse, an “expository council of survivors of Enthusiastic Sobriety Programs” she co-created. According to results she shared with YES! Weekly, 84 of 118 respondents alleged they were shamed for either their sexual histories or for being the victims of sexual abuse.
Nickerson said these results are only one of many things that have happened since she first contacted YES! Weekly last November.
