Therapist letters

Therapists have told me they're getting bogged down writing letters about how a U applicant's therapy/recovery would be harmed by deportation. That's not needed in most U Visa therapist letters. Therapists should check back with the client's attorney. But I think all these letters need to show are that the client suffered "substantial abuse" from the crime against her. Ideally the therapist can give a detailed explanation about how the client's symptoms/affect/etc. meet the standard for finding something DSM-like, like depression, PTSD, sexual assault survivor syndrome -- and, of course, say why she (the therapist) knows that.