Aspies For Freedom

I am thinking that you may have a very strong intuition, intuition should be listened to. If your intuition keeps bringing it up there may be a reason for it.  Aslo, Guess Who is right on -IF you personally haven't forgiven this person, you should try to and if you keep thinking about it not as intuition but becasue you haven't let go.  I have an idea.  

What if you wrote a short, to the point, letter to the administration - addressed to someone you know at the school who #1 is relatively safe from being let go and #2 has good common sense and compassion. (If you write it to someone like that, if the perosn you are complaining about is still like that, that person will be more than happy and know the best way to proceed with bringing your letter to this persons boss. If this woman has evolved, the erpson who gets the letter will do nothing and no harm done.  

So, You could write a short anonymous letter - and sign it as if you were still a student there. (signed, concerned and disappointed, student) The letter could just report your experience -   as you said "questioning her ability and suitability to be a counselor at all, (given the way she/he made you feel) let alone the sole counselor of a school, to whom the most vulnerable students would be sent to for help." since those are your true feelings.  And suggest that she be spoken to or retrained and that you hope the administration will look into it and you hope to see an improvement in her dealings with the student population.   You then could "let it go" knowing that you did what you could if it was your intuition or if you needed to vent to get over it then at least you "had your say" .

I suggested being annonymous only because you said that you still know some students there ... and if the school knows you and knows what students you know - If they at the school are a bunch of Ba***ards" and the wrong person takes the note overly defensively, the administration, or powers that be,  may take out repercussions on the people you know --- assuming that they were the ones that are complaining to you.  Also, if it has been many years since you were there, I am thinking that such a note might not seem to them as something they need to address at all - you know outdated. Just an opinion, not a strong one.  

another idea, from what ellen said about using your name...
  
Or additionally, if it not an intuition thing, might I suggest a direct note to the offending person telling her you persepective now - it may be that this person has no idea how she is being perceived, maybe she is burnt out and can't see her way clear.  Your direct non-confrontational note could change her, it could be her long needed wake up call.  You could help her and all those she deals with if she becomes more self aware...

I do not know what the specifics were in "can't think of a user name's" case but i believe that (can't think of) may have been a kid at the time - and yes we who are parents should be careful not to act like momma bears ready to pounce on every small slight- BUT, the position of counseler is a position of power - so it is very easy for me as a parent with a kid in school to worry about not just negligence, but gross negligence.  Only (can't think of a name) knows the degree of negligence or misuse of power, if any.  I have a child in school, I just picked him up from school and if he went for help to a person whose very job is to help and was treated in a way (by a person supposedly trained to be compassionate) that my child remembers years later - something is askew.

Korrigan, I never heard of a relationship between thyroid dysfunction  and depression... I'll have to google it.