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The Laminated Lie: How a Fake Counselor Stole a Town's Grief

The Laminated Lie: How a Fake Counselor Stole a Town's Grief

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The Laminated Lie: How a Fake Counselor Stole a Town's Grief

Fear and betrayal thread through this small-town story: a laminated ID found in a river exposed a woman who posed as a licensed counselor and led grief groups for nearly two years. How did a single printed card and a one-day workshop become the foundation for a trusted role in a community - and what happened when the truth surfaced?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events that brought Connie Bowers to Fenwick, how she established grief support groups in a church basement, and the moment a relative in St. Louis first could not verify the Dellwood Grief and Trauma Institute. What does it mean when the person holding your grief is a fabrication?

Date: July 14, 2011
Location: Fenwick, Missouri
Person: Connie M. Bowers
Organization: Dellwood Grief and Trauma Institute (no official filings)
Workshop: one-day grief workshop in Decatur, 2007

- A laminated identification card for "Connie M. Bowers, LPC - Dellwood Grief and Trauma Institute, St. Louis" was pulled from Sallow Fork on July 14, 2011.
- Connie Bowers arrived in Fenwick in September 2009 at age 24 and began offering grief support by January 2010.
- Her formal training consisted of two years of university psychology coursework (ended 2006) and a single one-day grief workshop in 2007.
- By January 2010 she was running two weekly Thursday grief groups (parental loss and spousal loss) in the Fenwick First Methodist church basement.
- A family member in St. Louis could not find any address, IRS filing, or state listing for the Dellwood Grief and Trauma Institute when queried in December 2010-January 2011.

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