As a friend of several survivors of conversion therapy, I know that this fraudulent practice: 

• makes depression, shame, and self-doubt worse, by falsely contending that same-sex orientation is a mental illness
• reinforces social isolation from those who can offer legitimate help
• offers "cures" in which patients are told to falsely accuse mothers of being too possessive and falsely accuse fathers of being too distant. Parents are told by these fraudulent therapists to blame each other and to reject their LGBT children 

Conversion therapists' lies about the origin of sexual orientation, and their emotional abuses against patients and their families, are a form of professional malpractice that harms the patient and their families on behalf of churches that hate entire segments of our community.