Health and Care Professions Council determination — substantive hearing
HCPTS panel imposes 18-month conditions on Emma Taylor
The practitioner psychologist admitted professional-boundary failures and was ordered to undertake supervision and personal therapy.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 30 April 2025 · Updated 23 September 2026
Conditions on practice (practising with restrictions) — 18 months
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Conditions of practice allow the practitioner to keep working but only subject to specific restrictions — for example, supervision, limits on certain procedures, or required reporting to the regulator.
Concerning Emma Taylor, practitioner psychologist (Health and Care Professions Council PYL26994).
Decision date: 30 April 2025 · Hearing started 29 April 2025 and ended 30 April 2025
In plain English
The HCPTS panel found that practitioner psychologist Emma Taylor committed misconduct by failing to maintain professional boundaries with a service user. It found partial insight, outstanding remediation and continuing impairment, while finding no case to answer that the conduct was sexual in nature. The panel imposed an 18-month conditions of practice order focused on supervision and personal therapy.
Charges
Ms Taylor admitted failing to maintain appropriate professional boundaries with a service user by meeting socially, maintaining a friendship outside therapy, entering a romantic relationship and later conducting a therapy session while in that relationship. The panel found there was no case to answer on the separate allegation that parts of the conduct were sexual in nature.
Findings
The panel found the admitted boundary failures amounted to misconduct. It found current impairment on personal and public grounds because Ms Taylor had only partial insight, further remediation was required to reduce the risk of repetition, and the conduct risked undermining confidence in psychology and its regulator. It imposed conditions requiring supervision and personal therapy.
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