Massage therapist loses licence for misconduct
A Penticton massage therapist has been stripped of his certification for a number of sex offences.
Jesse Brown admitted to five transgressions, according to a posting on the College of Massage Therapists of British Columbia website.
They include: sexual relations in the treatment room; a personal, romantic and sexual relationship with a patient; inappropriate communications with female patients, including personal and sexually suggestive conversations, both in and out of the treatment room; offering and consuming alcohol with a patient in the treatment room; and disclosing private information to patients concerning other patients.
Brown is listed on LinkedIn as having his own business, called The Brown’s Registered Massage Therapy Clinic, at 500 Power St. in downtown Penticton.
No further details of the offences were included in the complaint outcome, dated Dec. 19.
After issuing multiple summons, which were later consolidated into a single citation, Brown was given notice of a formal discipline hearing.
Brown admitted to the five transgressions, which happened between November 2010 and June 2016.
Given the resolution, the formal discipline hearing was called off.
Brown consented to the inquiry committee’s ruling that he give up his registration with the College of Massage Therapists of British Columbia, effective Jan. 31, 2018.
He is not eligible to apply for reinstatement for 30 years.
However, an email from a tipster to the Okanagan Weekend newsroom pointed out Brown could continue to treat patients and call himself a massage therapist or some sort of other therapist, but not a registered massage therapist.
The college has also ordered Brown to pay $13,200 to the organization by Dec. 19, 2018.
TheBrownsRegisteredMassageTherapy.com website is no longer live.
However, Brown’s LinkedIn profile is still online. It includes a photo of him hiking.
It still lists him as a B.C.-registered massage therapist at The Brown’s Registered Massage Therapy Clinic in Penticon.
Under experience in his LinkedIn profile, it says he’s been the owner and therapist at The Brown’s since June 2006.
His education is listed as a diploma from the Canadian College of Massage and Hydrotherapy, 2003-05.
Under volunteer experience and causes, being a facilitator of ‘What does the Bible really teach?’ education is listed, along with working with Spanish-speaking immigrants and migrant workers in the Okanagan, the Spanish-speaking public in the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica and Russian speaking public in Toronto.
Under projects, a straw-bale home called Casa del Lobo is listed. It says Brown co-ordinated and performed all construction on a straw-bale home in the Okanagan. It was listed for sale as of 2014 and for a full description, people were referred to the LinkedIn page of Jenna Brown.
A Mrs. Jenna Brown is listed as the registered massage therapist at TheBrownClinic.com, who works out of space at 500 Power St. Jesse Brown is not listed on that website.