South Carolina Is Investigating Jon Uhler And So Are We
Part One in a series
The counseling license of Jon Uhler, a self-styled expert on sex offenders, is under review by the Office of Investigative Enforcement in the South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation.
According to official correspondence obtained by The Distance, an investigator has been assigned to Uhler’s case, #2024-43. The case remains open at press time.
The investigator will report their findings to an Investigative Review Conference (IRC) “comprised of legal and subject matter experts” that will “make a recommendation to the respective board as to whether a violation occurred and if so, a recommendation regarding the appropriate disciplinary action to be taken.”
We too have investigated Jon Uhler. He presents himself to the public as an expert on safeguarding women and children from predators. We now present the first part of our findings that raise questions about his suitability as a safeguarding expert. Although Uhler has publicly minimized the South Carolina investigation, it is consistent with the pattern of behavior we have found in his employment history.
And that is the least-disturbing thing we have learned about the history of Jon Uhler.
Sections
What Jon Uhler’s “certifications” really mean
Auditing Jon Uhler’s experience
The areas of Jon Uhler’s expertise
Introduction
Modeling on mandatory therapeutic programs for drunk drivers, some states have mandated cognitive behavioral therapy for low-level offenders to prevent them from escalating to more serious crimes. South Carolina also practices civil commitment of sex offenders deemed too dangerous for regular parole.
Uhler is alleged to have exposed the names of two offenders under his care on social media, presenting their cases in false light, and risking their potential harassment in order to inflate public perception of his expertise.
In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, dated 19 March 2023 and still visible at the time of this writing, Uhler posted a screenshot of an email from state officials regarding an offender who was applying for Uhler’s counseling services.
Uhler failed to redact the email well enough to hide the name of the offender, who was easily identified.
Uhler also failed to effectively redact the criminal record of a second offender in a Twitter post on 15 July 2022. Uhler added a screenshot of that tweet to his July 2022 update at ChurchProtect.org, one of several businesses he has created over the years. We were likewise able to identify Uhler’s second client.
Uhler has also tweeted a screenshot of an email chain with a Sex Offender Agent in Richland County, South Carolina. We were able to identify the agent’s name and email address through Uhler’s poor redactions. We also identified a second state official from a similar screen captured email in Uhler’s tweets.
The manner in which Uhler has presented his clients, and his correspondence with state officials about his clients, in his social media commentary raises questions about his professionalism.
“Here is an actual referral of a guy into one of my sex offender treatment groups,” Uhler tweeted on 30 July 2022 using a screenshot of the second client. “Note what he was able to get his sex charges dropped down to, yet he is still required to do sex offender treatment. So, this guy could tell unsuspecting people that he is not a sex offender.”
The referral is not marked “sex offender.” Uhler had disclosed confidential identifying details of his client, including name and date of birth.
“Convictions don't always represent the actual offense, given that offenders can accept plea deals, avoiding a jury trial, by agreeing to ‘plead’ to lesser charges,” Uhler said. “He will be in sex offender treatment. If he transferred into a female prison, stats would show him w/out sex crimes.”
On 22 November 2022, Uhler used the screenshot of this same client’s criminal record during a streaming discussion on his YouTube channel. Thirty-one minutes into his talk with Ken Herdman, a retired treatment specialist with the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, Uhler displayed the screenshot with an “X” added to the “Sex Offender Treatment Services” box, which he then highlighted with a red rectangle.
During Part 2 of his YouTube interview with Herdman, just after presenting the screenshot with the fabricated X, Uhler inserted a scene from a Matt Walsh interview with Abigail Shrier on the topic of men “identifying” into women’s prisons.
“I’m trying to collect my thoughts,” Ken Herdman said in response. Transfer any man, sex offender or not, into a women’s prison, “and what the hell do you think is going to happen?” Herdman asked.
At that point, Jon cut the video “due to time constraints,” although Part 2 of the video is 17 minutes shorter than Part 1. Uhler deferred the remainder of Herdman’s answer for Part 3, which Uhler has still never posted to his channel. The Distance has reached out to Mr. Herdman for comment and will update if he responds.
Uhler has leveraged his supposed experience and expertise to defame his critics on social media. For example, Uhler has repeatedly identified @uhler_ron as his own former sex offender client. This “Ron Uhler” parody account exists to mock Uhler’s claims to experience and expertise.
Jon is adamant that he knows the identity of ‘Ron Uhler.’ The Distance has positively confirmed that the person behind the @uhler_ron account is in fact a foreign citizen who says he has “never visited the United States.”
“Attempting to parody Jon Uhler has been a fool’s mission,” ‘Ron’ says. “The king of parodying Jon Uhler is Jon Uhler.”
Jon Uhler has made similar claims against other users of the app who challenge his expertise and credibility. As demonstrated below, Uhler also appears to offer diagnoses of interlocutors on the app despite having never met or assessed them according to professional guidelines. We submit that this fictive bullying behavior is revealing of Uhler’s character.
A clinician and mandatory reporter noticed the same problematic behavior and reported these matters to Uhler’s licensing board out of professional ethical obligation. The complaints about Uhler’s disclosure of his client information have been deemed serious enough to merit a physical letter to that reporter.
If hearings take place, that reporter “may be called as witness,” according to the letter. Since receiving his own copy of that letter, Uhler has unwisely harassed this potential witness to his case via the X app while simultaneously blocking them. This furtive online behavior is consistent with Uhler’s past actions, described below, whenever people challenged his authority or rejected his control of them.
During any trial proceeding in the United States, administrative or judicial, Uhler is presumed innocent until proven guilty. The Distance has also contacted the investigator on the case for comment on this matter. We will update if they reply.
Jonathan Knight Uhler continues to make potentially libelous accusations and slander against numerous people while citing his credentials, experience, and expertise. He publishes and broadcasts tendentious claims that the objects of his smears favor sex criminals having access to vulnerable women and children.
Uhler presents himself as a safeguarding expert. Looking into his past, we have found discrepancies between the public image that Jon Uhler projects and his disturbing past behavior.
The darker side of Jon Uhler
Uhler believes himself to be an expert manipulator, too clever to be caught, but sooner or later everyone sees what he is.
“Your dad was really weird and abusive,” members of one Pennsylvania church community told Uhler’s daughter Nicole after his departure for California.
Uhler’s alleged abuses are mental, physical, spiritual, and financial.
According to Nicole, from the age of eight, Jon and his wife Patricia would threaten to make her homeless, or put her in foster care, unless she agreed to make petty changes, such as clothing choices or the groceries she consumed.
“We’ll pack your bags and put you out in the snow and let you figure it out,” they allegedly told Nicole. This manipulaton continued into her adulthood.
Contrary to the image that her father projects on social media of a loving dad, “he never bought me one birthday or Christmas gift,” other than a bible or other spiritual material, Nicole says.
“Your spiritual growth is more important than your happiness,” Jon allegedly told Nicole.
For example, Nicole says that when her younger brother Reed got his first job, Patricia, who refused to work herself, took Reed’s bank card and removed several hundred dollars from his account over the course of a year.
On several occasions, after either of his sons challenged his authority, Uhler would allegedly make the offending child sit in a bathtub filled with ice water and hold a bible while reciting verses of scripture. On other occasions, Uhler and his wife Patricia would allegedly spray the children with cold water, point large fans at them, and scream abuse.
Nicole reports that her family experienced multiple food crises, but “we never got government assistance, because Jon would rather build his businesses than take care of his family. He said he didn’t know how, and he’s too proud to ask for help.”
Homeschooling languished. Nicole taught herself through high school, she says. Her brother Lane, the middle child, was not really schooled at all from the end of grade school to the end of his high school years. Reed’s education was also interrupted.
Uhler rejected therapy for himself or his autistic son Lane on the grounds that it would undermine his credibility as a mental health counselor.
When Patricia Uhler committed sexual abuse against their sons, Uhler “didn’t want to deal with it,” according to Nicole, the oldest child. “Because Jon had taught us the legal definitions of overt sexual abuse,” Patricia stopped short of genital stimulation or intercourse.
Instead, their mother’s abuse amounted to gross sexual impositions. Patricia “would burst in on them in the shower and make degrading sexual comments.” She would pinch the boys’ bottoms when they were “18 or 19 years old,” Nicole says.
Their mother delighted in sexually explicit remarks to all three children about what sex with their future partners would be like.
“They had the authority to tell us how to have sex with our future partners,” Nicole explains. Her mother claimed that “through the power of God” she was “surveying” Nicole’s sex life. Patricia would accuse the children of contracting sexually transmitted diseases, Nicole says.
“Both Jon and Trish abused Lane physically, mentally, emotionally, sexually and spiritually — especially due to his severe autism and ADHD. That’s why I know Lane was never truly a ‘problem.’ Jon and Trish created so much rage and horrible trauma in all three of us,” Nicole says.
She says that there were also long stretches of her childhood without a visit to the dentist or a doctor. Both parents feared the bruises left by their abuse would be seen and reported to the state. The children were supplied with arnica ointment to remove them.
Patricia and Jon used the highly-controversial “Pearl method,” developed by Michael and Debi Pearl, which advises strict physical punishment of children. They were also enthusiastic about the controversial advice of James Dobson and Bill Gothard, revelling in new spanking techniques they had learned or invented.
“We were spanked until age 17, on the bottoms or back of legs, with hands or a leather strap,” Nicole recalls. “Lane and I could be spanked 4-6 times a week,” receiving “sometimes more than 100” strokes “until we bruised or blood was drawn.”
“Jon made us strip to our underwear and lay down and be spanked on the floor,” she remembers. “He said ‘it helped the soul.’ Jon would call it ‘reengaging our memory buttons.’”
Naked spanking was supposed “to humble us,” Nicole says. Both parents would “touch us anywhere, naked, when spanking us. As far as I know, Jon didn't touch any of our genitals directly, but Trish did, on multiple occasions.”
“Trish would make us sleep in bed with her, even at 19 or 20 years old,” Nicole says. She told her father what was happening, but “Jon never put a stop to it.” Instead, “he kicked me out of the house.”
After separating from Patricia, however, Jon changed his tune. He said he "had no idea that Trish was abusing us," allegedly telling Nicole that "‘your mother had me fully convinced that you all needed to be disciplined.’"
During 2016, Lane was in the throes of adolescence and began acting out against his abuse. According to Nicole, while Jon was out of the house one night, Patricia Uhler threatened to shoot Lane, then made a loud display of loading and charging a firearm in her bedroom.
Nicole says that Lane exited the home and ran away without even stopping for his shoes. Her brother ran barefoot to a nearby Panera Bread store where he worked and called his sister. “‘Mom is trying to shoot me,’” he allegedly told Nicole.
His crime had been to bring home the wrong item from the grocery store. Nicole was not surprised. “She threatened all of us, from six years old, that she would kill us with a gun,” Nicole says.
Jon and Patricia both threatened the children if they disclosed their abuse. “If you ever tell anyone we will hurt you so bad that you never walk again and pray that God kills you,” they allegedly threatened.
Patricia Uhler was severely mentally ill. She eventually took her own life. Jon never acted in any decisive way to separate her from the children, and in the end, left the boys to languish with Patricia and her family in Canada. We will examine the history of mental illness and abuse in Uhler’s family, including Lane’s criminal misbehavior, in greater detail later in this series.
We have contacted both Lane Uhler and Reed Uhler for comment on this story. Reed has declined to go on the record, but he has endorsed Nicole’s honesty and accuracy of recall. Lane has not responded yet. We will update if he does.
Jon Uhler is fascinated with abuse. He fancies himself to be an expert on MK Ultra and mind control. He has “helped” mentally ill women “recover memories” of supposed satanic ritual abuse. Uhler has directed some of these victims to locate “alters,” or multiple personalities, which supposedly resulted from this abuse.
One member of a church that the Uhler family attended tells The Distance that he began “counseling” at least one other church member who then “recovered” memories of physical abuse at the hands of her father.
“I don’t remember dad ever sexually abusing me,” this counseling client allegedly told the church member. “But Jon thinks he did. We’ve got to have more sessions.”
“The longer she counseled with him, the more odd the memories of her childhood became,” says our source, who spoke to The Distance on condition of anonymity.
According to this church member, the mother of the person Uhler was counseling denied the abuse ever took place. “‘I was not witness to those things,’” the source quotes the mother.
Uhler’s “counseling” activities at this particular church, Grace Bible Fellowship in Somerset, Pennsylvania, only became clear to that pastoral community near the end of his membership. We will also examine this part of his career in closer detail in a future update, for it bears on the state of mind in which Jon lost his job working in prisons.
People who know Jon Uhler, including members of his immediate family, describe a manipulative abuser with a god complex.
“My father wants to be the cult leader,” Nicole, the oldest of his three adult children, tells The Distance. Jon Uhler would often invoke God and claim to speak for the divine. “This was my biggest red flag.”
Jon and Patricia “spent hours a week researching military-style survival preparation” and held classes at the church. Jon had an idea for a church-bunker construction business and held meetings to organize and assign tasks for what seemed like a doomsday cult, Nicole says.
During 2012, she recalls that her parents became obsessed with a set of highway signs in Pennsylvania which they believed were supposed to lead to rapture sites and FEMA concentration camps.
Nicole says that the family would park in lots adjacent to Walmart to avoid surveillance cameras supposedly hidden inside the letters of the sign on the front of the store. Inside Walmart, Patricia would ride herd on the children to keep them moving “in case someone followed us,” Nicole tells The Distance.
Even after Patricia was out of the picture, Jon would tell Nicole not to say things too loudly, because “‘They might be listening.’ Things got really weird,” Nicole says.
Her parents sunk the family fortune into their fantasies. Having saved a reported $100,000 or more with his first wife by the year 2000, Uhler spent every penny of it. The wasted funds included the children’s college money. We will return to the disaster of Jon Uhler’s employment record and family finances in a future update.
“My dad has a lot of fantasy thinking,” Nicole says. “The more he failed, the more he dug in his heels.”
Uhler had started “around eight different companies” by 2018. “He will have an idea for a social justice company,” Uhler’s daughter tells The Distance, and then seek to recruit other people to do the work for him. Success did not seem to be his goal. “He wasn’t being forthright about how much effort and resources were required.”
The story that Nicole, who is has married and divocred and now lives in Idaho, tells The Distance matches the details of stories we have heard from former business partners of her father.
Jimmy Hinton, who first encountered Jon Uhler at a faith group meeting in 2014, says that Uhler proposed a joint nonprofit business venture during that first encounter.
Hinton tells The Distance that his own contacts then contributed “100 percent of the funds” that ChurchProtect ever received in contributions, which was not much. Furthermore, “we never really had a clear mission,” Hinton says. “We were supposed to be training people to prevent child abuse.”
The partnership lasted less than three years. “The accountant missed a deadline to file the 990-EZ,” Hinton says, and “then Jon accused me of not turning in financial records.”
Increasingly skeptical of Uhler, Hinton witnessed him “harassing and gaslighting women on his Facebook page over the Jane Doe story from the Masters University” in October 2017 and decided to resign.
“I knew that he would be absolutely livid and he was.” Hinton says he was braced for retaliation. “I knew that he was going to be furious when I resigned because I was starting to see indications that he was the person who had to be in control, always.”
Hinton resigned without telling Uhler beforehand. Instead, he sent Uhler a text message, followed by an email and a public Facebook announcement “within 30 minutes,” Hinton says.
Immediately thereafter, Uhler “sent me three lengthy voicemails where he was absolutely screaming into the phone,” Hinton recalls. “‘You have no idea what you did to me,’” Uhler allegedly roared. “‘You need to rewrite your resignation.’” Otherwise, Uhler intoned darkly, “‘there will be consequences.’”
At Uhler’s demand, Hinton supplied a terse letter of resignation on ChurchProtect letterhead that included his address and phone number. Uhler then posted a screenshot of the unredacted resignation letter on the ChurchProtect Facebook page, doxxing Hinton.
In his personal communications, Uhler accused Hinton of “money fraud” and theft. “He said I had a fiduciary duty to be transparent about the finances, which was a joke because there was no money to begin with,” Hinton recalls.
“He also accused me of not turning the hosting of Church Protect's website to him. That also was not true.”
Uhler had also filed for the organization’s nonprofit status using Jimmy Hinton’s home address. “He didn’t ask, he told me,” Hinton says ruefully. “Looking back. I obviously would never have [agreed to] that” had he known Jon Uhler better.
Hinton’s experience fits a pattern we have discerned in Uhler’s business startups. “He always came at it from this angle of excitement, then after 3 to 5 months he would start to pull back and not communicate that to his partners,” Nicole says.
Some of these companies never made it past the planning stage. “He wasn’t willing to put in the time and effort to build it from the ground up.”
Uhler pitched a treatment center from the moment he arrived at Grace Bible Fellowship.
“I met Jon Uhler one time at a speaking event,” Clara Hinton tells The Distance. “He’s a fast talker.” When he visited her home, “within one hour or less” Uhler had “laid out plans for me to ‘donate’ my home and 22 acres of property for a treatment center for grief and sexual abuse.”
“My head was spinning. I called Jimmy after that and said I never wanted to see that man again. He was making plans to take my home right from under me,” Clara Hinton, Jimmy Hinton’s mother, says.
She worried about her son working with Uhler. “To be truthful, he made my skin creep. I had a feeling about him,” Clara tells us.
As Uhler floated the idea of a group home to his new church community, he recruited members to fill key positions. The facility was to receive federal funding and Uhler promised at least one church member a large salary to be the administrator.
“Something is wrong with that guy,” the subject of this sales pitch told others at Grace Bible Fellowship. “He’s very pushy and I don’t want to run his group home.”
This “over the top” behavior by Uhler soon began to sour the relationship, our anonymous source says. “His personality was a little bit too much, too aggressive. We were uncomfortable with that.”
“I don’t think Jon was attracted to the doctrine” of the Grace Bible Fellowship church, our source says. Instead, Uhler “targeted our openness. We are by nature not suspicious. We do not judge. We are not legalistic.”
The community is largely blue collar, with “four or five families of farmers.” Just one in five adult members has higher education. “I think he saw that he could be the smartest guy in the room.”
“He definitely used the religious community to exploit for his purposes,” Nevin Hersch says. “He confused people by talking at a high level.”
Early in his time at Grace Bible Fellowship, Uhler recruited Hersch and his wife to form a company that would establish a group home for delinquent teens. The Hersches, who had experience working in a group home, “had a desire to be involved with this type of benevolent help,” Nevin says.
Uhler brought enthusiasm and energy. The Hersches had 200 acres of property. They were planning to buy an adjacent woodland lot and considered it as a location for the group home.
But Rolland Valley Treatment Services LLC never got farther than a business registration, Nevin says, because he started to see red flags in Jon Uhler.
Nevin says that on the frequent occasions that Uhler would discuss the work he had done with men in the prison system, he “started to get uncomfortable.”
“What [Jon] said he was trying to do to them didn’t sound logical or legitimate from a secular perspective or a religious type of perspective.”
Instead, Jon’s “tangled and confusing” ideas “went far beyond any rational interpretation of modern psychotherapies” or Christian counseling. “It seemed to me that the way he integrated the two was so confusing,” Nevin says.
“Jon, I really hope you don’t counsel too many people, you leave them worse off than you found them,” Nevin finally told Uhler. In response, Uhler complained to the pastor. Talk of a group home “just got dropped” thereafter.
“There were huge questions in my mind about his integrity, and questions in my mind about his religious or secular authority,” Nevin says. “I wouldn’t have wanted him counseling folks in our church.”
He was then dismayed to learn that Jon was already “counseling” couples in their faith community. Jon was applying his unique, and questionable, methods. “He was doing psychotherapy when the problem was lack of communication,” Nevin tells The Distance.
Nevin says that Uhler would speak separately with each spouse, say different things to each, and suggest marital separation. Multiple sources in the Grace Bible Fellowship family say Uhler’s couples counseling was destructive rather than helpful. One former co-worker of Uhler at a prison told The Distance that Uhler’s advice was instrumental in the end of their own marriage.
Patricia Uhler’s mental health deteriorated at the same time. She began harassing the pastor, who confronted her along with elders of the church. Nevin Hersch feels that Jon Uhler “groomed” his community, and that “there was a faux exterior to what was going on in their family.” We will return to this story in Part Two of our series.
After Patricia was out of the picture, Jon continued his financial abuse of Nicole. “‘If you don’t work with me’” on his businesses, “‘I don’t know what will happen to you,’” Nicole alleges he threatened.
In February 2020, “after Jon told me over the phone that he didn’t have income, he screamed at me for not paying him back $200, saying I was responsible for his ‘inability to pay for Reed, using my retirement from the prison!’” Nicole says.
“He violently screamed, ‘Do you think someone of my level and experience should even have to be in this position?! I may even have to start working at Walmart!’”
At the time, Jon and his new wife Susan had just mortgaged a new 5 bedroom, 3 bath home in Blythewood, South Carolina. Jon Uhler told Nicole that he chose the location “on a golf course, because that’s where I’ve dreamed of retiring.”
Jon moved in with Susan a few months after his first wife, Patricia, jumped from a balcony attached to the Uhler home in 2016 in a fit of attention-seeking as her family struggled to leave her behind. We will explore this event in greater detail in Part Two.
Uhler was still not divorced from Patricia, but he spoke about his budding romance with his church community. Members of the Grace Bible Fellowship say they could not get straight answers from Jon before he left for California to be with Susan.
Uhler brought Susan to South Carolina in 2019 when he started working at Bright Side Counseling. From the end of 2016 until that moment, “Jon fully lived off her retirement and bought very expensive supplements and organic food, actually using up all of Susan’s $300-500,000 retirement that she’d saved up over her nearly 25 years of teaching,” Nicole says. “That’s why they couldn’t afford their mortgage.”
We now turn to the bankruptcy of Uhler’s projected professional image.
What Jon Uhler’s “certifications” really mean
On social media, Uhler puts three acronyms next to his name. He is an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor), CCTP (Certified Clinical Trauma Professional), and CSOTP (Certified Sex Offender Treatment Professional) according to Evergreen Certifications.
Evergreen specifically notes that “Certification does not imply endorsement of clinical competency.”
To receive his CSTOP certification, Uhler only needed his master’s degree, 2,000 clinical hours as any sort of counselor, including his time as a marital and family counselor, with at least 200 hours specific to sex offenders. He received 24 hours of online training.
The qualifications for CCTP are similar, though it requires only 12 hours of instruction.
The LPC license qualifies Uhler to purchase PCL-R kits through Pearson Assessments. These assessment kits can be used to diagnose a client according to the instructions in the standard two-day workshop, which Uhler received directly from Dr. Robert Hare of the famous psychopathy checklist.
Uhler has touted this “certification” (it is actually just a “Document of Attendance”) on social media as his source of authority to diagnose various app users as psychopaths.
Generally, groups like the American Psychiatric Association say that “psychiatrists should never offer diagnoses or public comments about people who they have not actually evaluated or treated and thus they should not offer any speculated diagnosis for well known celebrities or public figures from afar.” Jon Uhler is not even a psychiatrist. He appears to be operating far outside of normal professional ethical boundaries.
We have asked the South Carolina Office of Investigative Enforcement whether Uhler can produce records of diagnosis or assessment via the X app, which PCL-R kits he may have used to diagnose or assess app users, as well as any treatment plans associated with his counseling care of those he diagnoses or assesses this way. We will update if we learn more.
Uhler has frequently cited his “research and clinical” membership in the Association for the Treatment and Prevention of Sexual Abuse (ATSA) on social media and in podcasts. He refers to this “certification” as “rare.” Most recently, he told podcaster Sean McCann that “not many people are able to qualify for ATSA.”
According to correspondence obtained by The Distance, however, Jon Uhler is not a current member of the ATSA, “a multi-disciplinary organization dedicated to making society safer by preventing sexual abuse.”
As a professional advocacy organization, ATSA creates policy advice for “members, treatment providers, legislators, and the public.” ATSA does not certify members or review their research.
Uhler simply purchased a $200 “Research and Clinical Membership” in 2020, which he either allowed to lapse or which was revoked.
According to many of Uhler’s tweets and public statements, to date he has worked with over four thousand sex offenders. On 16 August 2019, for example, Uhler claimed in a tweet that he has “worked forensically for 11+ yrs, conducted sex offender treatment to approx 4000 predators both in gen pop and long-term solitary.”
The Distance has obtained Uhler’s counseling contract with the sex offenders referred to him by officials with the South Carolina Board of Probation, Pardon, and Parole Services. It also states that Uhler has “interacted with and/or treated nearly 4,000 sex offenders” and “read through approximately 4,000 sex offender clinical files & criminal histories.”
Uhler’s ChurchProtect.org website (“a division of SurvivorSupport”) claims that he has “evaluated and treated approximately 4000 Low and High Risk sex offenders.” The website blog was last updated in 2022.
Our analysis shows this is a highly questionable claim. Tucked inside his client contract is a less impressive number: Uhler has “assessed and evaluated 100s of sex offenders, both for treatment and for purposes of Parole determination.” This is likely closer to the reality of Uhler’s experience with this population.
As a teenager, Nicole says she witnessed Jon Uhler exaggerating his experience with sex offenders. Her father was reportedly defensive when she questioned him about this matter, but he also confessed to inflating the numbers and tried to excuse himself.
“I just don’t want people to know that it’s not quite as many” as he claimed, Uhler allegedly said, “because then they won’t take me seriously.”
Hinton says that Jon Uhler made “extremely grandiose” and “fanciful claims of credentialing” in 2016. “It was extremely important to him.” At one point, Hinton says, Uhler wanted him “to reword our introduction” for podcast appearances “because people don’t need to know that it was just the two of us who ran the organization.”
“He said that we were credible and that we should word it in a way to make it sound like we were a larger organization.”
Uhler began claiming experience with “thousands” of sex offenders during 2016-2017. After 2020, Uhler further inflated his figures. By then, he had found a new business line in private counseling of sex offenders. We now call foul on Jon Uhler’s claims of experience with this population.
Auditing Jon Uhler’s experience
Although Uhler started working at the SCI-Cresson state prison in Pennsylvania in 2005, he was not assigned to the sex offender unit at that facility until 2011. Before his reassignment, Uhler worked in the Secure Special Needs Unit (SSNU) treating the mental health of all types of inmates.
According to official documents obtained by The Distance, “Mr. Uhler worked in the SSNU from 2005 until approximately 2011,” when he told a supervisor about his “concerns of abuse, neglect and other mistreatment of inmates.” Thereafter, Uhler “was reassigned to work in SCI-Cresson’s sex offender unit.”
He was in that position for about a year. Now shuttered, SCI-Cresson only ever housed approximately 1,600 prisoners. Statistically, Uhler would have encountered only a handful of sex offenders in the SSNU. Claiming that he ran the sex offender unit, Uhler nevertheless has also admitted that it only ever held 65 beds.
SCI-Cresson, a former tuberculosis sanitarium, was closed in 2013. Uhler started anew in October 2012, becoming a psychological services specialist at the State Correctional Institution at Somerset, Pennsylvania, which had a similar population to Cresson.
However, his tenure at that facility’s Mental Health Unit ended abruptly in 2016 when Uhler was charged with forging the signatures of five inmates on his paperwork.
According to the Daily American, a local newspaper, citing court documents, “Uhler submitted an individual recovery plan for inmate Yousuf Pettey even though Pettey was not part of Uhler’s caseload. Because Pettey’s assigned psychology staff had already submitted a plan for him, authorities suspected that Uhler did not meet with the inmate.”
Uhler was interviewed on Feb. 17, and he admitted to signing three inmates’ names on their individual recovery plans. He submitted these documents to act as if the inmates were in agreement with the plans, according to a probable-cause affidavit.
Uhler told authorities that he met with several inmates on the morning before a psychiatric review team meeting but failed to obtain their signatures. Video footage showed that Uhler was in his office on Dec. 3 and that he did not meet with any inmates, according to the affidavit.
Uhler was apparently allowed to expunge the misdemeanor forgery charge by throwing himself on the mercy of the court as a first-time offender. He maintains that he was the victim of an administrative vendetta as well outright fabrication by the newspaper, which he simply lacks the time to sue. Uhler made similar claims to his church community in 2016 and 2017.
We note from the Daily American article that Uhler did not work with prisoners every day. We submit that Jon Uhler was instead already inflating his expertise with both prisoners and sex offenders when he got caught forging prisoner signatures at Somerset.
This is consistent with accounts from Nicole Uhler and Jimmy Hinton about Jon Uhler’s activities after 2012, when he began marketing himself as an expert on sex offenders.
In his South Carolina license application, Uhler checked the “no” box in response to the following questions:
“Have your privileges ever been rejected or terminated by any association, licensed facility, or staff of such facility, or have you ever voluntarily or involuntarily resigned or withdrawn from such association or facility to avoid imposition of such measures?”
And:
“Have you ever been arrested, charged or convicted (including a nolo contendere plea or guilty plea) in any state or federal court (other than minor traffic violations) whether or not sentence was imposed or suspended?”
Signing the application, Uhler agreed that “any false or incomplete information in this application…such act shall constitute cause for denial or revocation of my license to practice professional counseling in South Carolina.”
The Distance has confirmed that the Office of Investigative Enforcement is aware of the discrepancy. We will update if we learn more.
After his dismissal from Somerset in 2016, Uhler briefly worked at a tiny addiction treatment center on a tiny Cape Cod island. This sojourn at a facility on Penikese Island, 650 miles from his home in Pennsylvania, ended as little as one or two weeks after his arrival, reportedly because Uhler needed to return home and deal with his legal issues.
Church members gave Uhler $3,500 as emergency aid to start over at Penikese, but he returned three weeks later and never offered a clear explanation for what had happened. The facility closed shortly thereafter and only ever hosted six young men.
The Distance has obtained a flier from a 2017 symposium on “Predator Identification & Survivor Support: Understanding the Motives and Methods of the Child Super Predator” held by ChurchProtect. Uhler claims in this document to have “experience of counseling over 3,000 sex offenders” (emphasis added), but as we have seen, this claim was highly implausible.
Sources who were close to Uhler from 2017 to 2019 say that he was not privately counseling sex offenders during that period. He was instead living on his payout of $40,130.66 from the pension fund for state prison employees, having been invested for over 10 years, as well as Susan’s life savings. This pension documentation does not match what Uhler told Nicole about his pension payout at the time he was having her and her brother pay many of his bills.
On 3 July 2018, just one year after the symposium, Uhler tweeted from his @JonKUhlerLPC account that he had “11+ yrs conducting forensic sex offender treatment to approx 4000 incarcerated sex offenders” (emphasis added).
Somehow, Uhler had managed to have clinical contact with 1,000 sex offenders in just one year without being employed by any prison at all. He had in fact worked exclusively with the population only during 2011-2012. His claims were already far out of plumb with reality six years ago, at the time of this writing.
Uhler’s stated numbers have only grown more problematic since he made this risible claim.
The Distance has obtained a copy of Uhler’s service provider application to the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services. It shows that he applied for his license to practice counseling of sex offenders in February 2020.
In December 2022, Uhler told an interviewer on YouTube that he was “starting my third group” of offenders and had “about 50 guys” as clients.
Then in April 2023, Uhler told a second interviewer that he regularly saw “three groups” totaling “45 guys.”
During December 2023, Uhler told a third interviewer that he was seeing “50 guys” every week in four group sessions.
Thus Jon Uhler consistently claimed in public to serve approximately 50 clients every week, whether he held two, three, four, or five group sessions per week, over the course of one year.
Uhler presently claims to have 200 clinical contact hours with sex offenders per month, with approximately 50 clients per week, by conducting five treatment groups per week. This math does not add up, for the treatment sessions are supposed to be two hours long.
Signed in 2020, Uhler’s contract with the South Carolina Department of Probation, Pardon, and Parole Services also limits him to “group sessions of no more than ten (10) participants” at a time. Either Uhler has admitted to violating the terms of his contract, or else he has been making up numbers to inflate his expertise.
The Distance has also seen Uhler’s contract that clients must sign in order to receive his services. Uhler has highlighted the paragraph in which he advises that “the program you are entering will be a minimum of 18 months duration of time (assuming your attendance is 100%)” (emphasis original).
Even if we ignore this passage, and assume that Uhler has cycled through 50 new clients every six months for the last four years, with complete turnover twice a year, it only adds up to four hundred new clients through the end of 2023.
Through the aid of a researcher, The Distance has requested documents under the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act to better enumerate Uhler’s clients. We will update this investigative series once we receive and analyze the state’s response to our FOIA request.
We have prepared the following table. Using available information on each facility where Jon Uhler worked and basic math, we estimate that he has likely substantially inflated his actual clinical exposure to all offenders, not just sex offenders. Again, these are only estimates based on the capacity of units where he was assigned.
We estimate that Uhler has exaggerated his actual experience with this specific population of prisoners tenfold.
At the time of this writing, Uhler claims to have worked with sex offenders for 15 years. He has not in fact worked with the population consistently for that entire period. We can only account for 10 years in which Jon Uhler is likely to have worked with any sex offenders at all for reasons that might have been related to their sexual offending — and this still overstates his actual level of contact with the population.
Furthermore, Uhler counseled inmates under the licenses of his direct supervisors, who would have overseen diagnosis and treatment. At SCI-Somerset, for example, he was responsible to Dr. Richard Hoffman. Uhler was not “in charge” of anything. Our chart assumes that he was working alone with all of these prisoners, all the time, which is clearly not even the case.
Uhler’s 2019 application for an LPC license from South Carolina declares that he has 10,625 hours of direct client contact, a figure which includes his 13 years as a family and marital counselor before working in prisons, 793 hours of individual supervision, and zero hours of group supervision. According to Nicole, Uhler did in fact lead group sessions in the prisons. He is now supposed to be supervising group therapy of clients.
Uhler obtained a license to perform independent counseling services in Pennsylvania in 2016, a few months after he was charged with forging prisoner signatures at Somerset. It remains valid until 2025.
In South Carolina and the United States, the use of trickery and deceit to puff up one’s reputation is not illegal. However, in the United States as well as South Carolina, misrepresentations made in order to obtain material benefits, such as money or other property, may potentially be considered fraud by a civil or criminal court.
We now turn to the final problem we have identified in Jon Uhler.
The areas of Uhler’s expertise
In a recent appearance with Brittany ‘Rouxx’ (“A Slightly Twisted Female,” real name Brittany Lynn Ortiz), Jon Uhler opined that girls who want mastectomies as part of a gender transition probably have “dissociative identity disorder” and that “part of them” wants their breasts removed. Ortiz seems to have either missed, or failed to interrogate, this reference to so-called “multiple personalities.”
Instead, she nodded in approval as Uhler began to denounce an organization called Genspect. Although she is not a radical feminist, Ortiz identifies herself as “radfem-informed” and an opponent of gender identity ideology. ‘Gender critical’ communities are still relatively new, containing their own controversies, and Uhler saw an opportunity to fulfill his fantasy.
There was an opening. A loophole in safeguarding.
By impressing an especially pious tranche of ‘gender critical’ influencers, Jon Uhler hoped, and still hopes, to access vulnerable young females with ‘gender identity’ issues, especially detransitioners, to 'help’ them recover supposed memories of horrific sexual abuse, possibly by satanists, and even ‘help’ to identify their ‘alters,’ or multiple personalities.
If this seems like a harsh assertion, Uhler has in fact pursued contact with young detransitioned women who fit a certain victimhood profile.
“At first I really vibed with his show and his psychoeducation seemed sound on the abusive dynamics and dynamics of evil,” Laura Becker, the artist known as Funk God, tells The Distance. She agreed to be a guest on his livestream. “We interviewed, then he was strongly interested in me collaborating and wanted me to facilitate a peer support group for detransitioners.”
Becker, the artist known as Funk God, says that Jon immediately came on strong, as he always does. “I remember him saying there was something special about me that would make me a good leader for the support group.” Uhler “kept saying I have a very good feeling about you or something to indicate divine synchronicity.”
He said it was “basically meant to be that we’d meet or work together a lot of times,” Becker recalls.
When they recorded Part Two of the interview, however, Becker was dealing with the fallout of an emotional affair with a man who turned out to be a sociopath. Uhler “was comforting and said all the right things you’d tell a survivor,” Becker says.
“Then a contact called me to warn me” about Uhler, so “I blocked him,” Becker adds. She also warned another very prominent detransitioner, Prisha Mosely.
Prisha Mosely tells us she had already begun to back away from Jon. “I was ghosting him for a while and being hard to reach because I was very new to being public,” Mosely says. “I was pulling away and growing the courage to say no because it felt bad and I’m certain now that he knew that.”
Mosely canceled the interview, using an emergency meeting with her legal team as an excuse. After the cancellation, she was disturbed by “sudden weird Twitter vibes” from Jon. His “insincere and double meaning oriented vibes regarding goals” were a red flag, to her.
Two weeks after Prisha cancelled the interview, Jon emailed her to reschedule and “really laid the guilt on thick,” she says. In that email, which Mosely has shared with The Distance, Uhler wanted Prisha to join his “Members Only support group for Detransitioners,” naming Becker as a party interested in “creating a safe space for Detransitioners to meet together” on his “UnMaskingTheTransMovement” streams.
Robin Atkins, a licensed mental health counselor, was supposed to “facilitate” this support group. In a statement on X/Twitter, Atkins says she “had maybe 3 conversations about it” with Uhler but “decided not to pursue it.”
“There were a few posts by Mr. Uhler that caused me some concern as to a difference in opinion between he and I regarding professional ethics,” Atkins says. “I went directly to him with my concern that he was bordering on violating patient confidentiality in some of his posts. He responded well to my concerns in that he thanked me for reaching out to him and said he would consider it.”
“I have distanced myself from Mr. Uhler in the past year,” she continues. “My reasons for doing so have nothing to do with the accusations being made against him by others.”
Becker says she is not surprised to see Ortiz and Uhler join forces in gaslighting people. “Brittany made a video calling me out and reacting to my video about the [Genspect] conference. She said I couldn’t trust my judgment because of my abuse history.”
Yvette Nary, a lesbian activist from the days of the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, was not invited back on Uhler’s stream. “He did NOT like that I'm lesbian and I wasn't the right kind of vulnerable for him,” she says. Uhler had “talked about starting a grandparents' support group that he wanted me to help with, but of course that never came together.”
Uhler, we note, has consistently preferred heterosexual female detransitioners to lesbian or male detransitioners. We suggest that he has targeted this specific profile of victim, and that Becker and Mosely dodged a bullet.
Anyone who seeks Uhler’s counseling is a potential victim for his “clinical specialty” in “trauma-based disorders, especially as it relates to the trauma associated with ritualistic sexual abuse.” Uhler put those words right on the website of his ChurchProtect organization.
Uhler has discussed his fascinations with supposed satanic ritual abuse and multiple personalities (“dissociative identity disorder” or DID) in multiple YouTube interviews. He has tweeted historical revisionism in defense of these dubious past scandals. Jon Uhler is a satanic panic true believer, an ideological fossil of the McMartin Preschool trials and Sybil. Ask him about any of these topics, and you will discover a self-anointed expert on the ‘real story’ of a sinister cover-up to hide the truth behind these past moral panics.
He has clearly articulated his view that gender confusion is related to DID. In a February 2023 YouTube stream on “satanic ritual abuse,” Uhler opined that “within that [young] person you’re going to have parts” — meaning ‘alters’ — “that are both gender, you’ll have male and female parts. Why? For a female, you’ll have male parts. Why? Those are the protective ones,” he said emphatically.
“So can you imagine, a protective part comes out, looks at the body and says ‘What the heck are these? These don’t belong here.’”
Jon Uhler attended bible schools in his own youth. He graduated from Talbot School of Theology in 1990 with a BA in Marriage and Family Ministries. He received his master’s degree in Family and Marital Counseling from California State at Fullerton in 1992. By then, Uhler had already begun offering “counseling services” for recovered memories of satanic ritual abuse and associated multiple personality disorder.
Beginning the pattern of behavior he exhibited later at Grace Bible Fellowship, Uhler found his best sales leads in the pews. Couples came to him for counseling, many of them including vulnerable people, some of whom were mentally ill.
Better yet, trauma and poor mental health frequently overlapped with fervent, conspiracy-addled Christianity. Uhler could hunt his perfect victims: people who, like himself, were “paranoid and religious,” as Johnny Crowley says of his own family.
Patricia Uhler wanted Jon Uhler to go into counseling instead of the ministry. Uhler’s church community client care was a substitute for the pastoral career he never had. In fact, Crowley first met Jon Uhler in a mental health facility visiting his mother, Jill, after she had been admitted during a severe episode.
Her medications were increased time and again without seeming to help. Uhler’s creative spiritual counseling only made her worse. Johnny left home at 13. “It split our family apart,” he says of Uhler’s expertise. We will dive deeper into this dark tale later in the series.
On the X app, Uhler has also promoted his expertise in prison management. We will return to Jon’s time at SCI-Cresson in this series too, for the public-facing facts of his employment there do not quite match with his projected image of whistleblowing hero.
We call foul on his pretensions to special insight with offenders. Quite unlike the image he projects of FBI agent Clarice Starling in Silence of the Lambs, Uhler’s access to prisoners, even in solitary confinement, was always supposed to be limited to the needs of the prison.
Both of Uhler’s jobs in the “Mental Health Unit” at Somerset and the SSNU at SCI-Cresson were therapeutic. Jon Uhler was paid to assess and treat prisoners for their mental health issues. He was not employed in cinematic psychoanalysis.
“I have spent hundreds of hours providing one-on-one therapy with the full range of very heinous within solitary confinement, including serial rapists/murderers, Sexually Violent Predators (plus a cannibal or two),” Uhler has tweeted with a photo of Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter. “It is only in this environment that they truly reveal their minds.”
Using a production photo of Hannibal and Agent Starling, Uhler then clarified that he got to meet exactly one cannibal in prison. “So, I did get a chance to get a lot of insights into what led him into that, and what fueled it. It takes yrs of ‘field research’ where few are permitted to have them disclose.”
Reading criminal histories does not make Jon Uhler a forensic psychologist. To our knowledge, he has never testified at a criminal trial, nor has he published any peer-reviewed research.
Instead, Uhler dramatizes prison conditions and positions himself as the main character in his own Netflix series. Having talked to Nicole as well as people at Grace Bible Fellowship, we have reason to worry about just what on earth Jon was actually doing to those inmates.
Uhler reduced his usage of this @JonKUhlerLPC account in 2020 shortly after he was fired from Bright Side Counseling in West Columbia, South Carolina. It appears the account may have been suspended and restored in the Elon Musk amnesty. Among the many embarrassments we have discovered on the old account is this dramatic use of a photograph from San Quentin.
In fact, the United States Department of Justice deplored the use of “small cage(s) roughly the size of a telephone-booth” for inmates “with serious mental illness” receiving “out of cell therapy” in their investigative report on the Cresson facility. It was one of many poor conditions which resulted in the closure of that prison.
But Uhler was not assigned to unlock the secrets of prisoners’ minds at Cresson. He was employed to apply standardized, systematized mental health assessment and treatment to inmates. By his own admission, prisoners able to “play nice” were not confined to the cages during group therapy sessions.
According to official statements from Bright Side Counseling, their “official position is that we do not recommend Mr. Uhler as a therapist.” He appears to have worked there for less than one year. “Bright Side Counseling's official position is that we do not endorse Jon Uhler as a counselor,” the CEO of Bright Side confirms.
Bright Side has confirmed that Uhler left in January 2020. This is consistent with the negative Yelp review of Bright Side that Uhler posted on 19 January 2020.
Uhler still abandoned the restored @JonKUhlerLPC account entirely during 2023 in favor of his @uhler_jon account, which he had created in November 2021. His new account has attracted many more followers than the old account. Most of these followers have likely not noticed how his opinions have changed over time.
Because a supermajority of human beings agree that human sex is real, the ‘gender critical’ category represents a complete spectrum of political and spiritual views. Pressing the hot buttons of the fundamentalists in this new church community, Uhler now presents himself as an expert on, for example, the subject of AGP men. We are intrigued by the evolution of his expertise on autogynephilia.
In 2019 Uhler defended the honor of one James Shupe, a self-described autogynephile, against charges of being “porn-saturated & deviant.” Now retransitioned and styling himself anew as Elisa Rae, Shupe wrote accounts of his own sexual feminization at the time, ascribing its development to pornographic influences. Uhler ignored Shupe’s own words to excuse his cross-dressing.
Uhler did not mention Blanchard’s typology in reference to Shupe, though Shupe used it in reference to his own case. Instead, Uhler prompted followers to focus on the fact that Shupe “never molested a child or acted seductively” and “was hurting.” Uhler was begging sympathy for Shupe.
Shupe’s “personal story would be very characteristic (even prior to his de-transitioning),” Uhler added, as though to infer expertise on detransitioners as well as AGPs. To our knowledge, he does not have any clinical experience with either population.
In tweets on his old account, Jon Uhler also professed a belief in “Trans” identities, sometimes capitalizing the word.
“The genuine Trans (those who were confused and seeking relief) were never flamboyant, were all gay, and had a significant history of being molested when quite young,” Uhler wrote of transgender etiology in 2019, again never mentioning Blanchard.
Claiming expertise from working with transgender prisoners, Uhler also asserted that “the majority of them had been abused, but had no child porn charges.”
According to the old Uhler, then, there is reason to believe that ‘transgender identities’ are real. The old Jon Uhler was ‘tru-trans.’ The new Jon Uhler sings a new hymn, but it is still a song about the demonic forces of his own imagination.
During June 2022, on his @uhler_jon account, Uhler claimed that “100% of ‘Trans’ inmates are steeped in porn PRIOR to their arrest,” adding that “The Trans that are not dangerous to women don’t ask for transfers, and those who work on Psych staff and conduct sex offender treatment know it.”
Of course, this was also an unacceptable answer. Jon Uhler had indirectly suggested that there are capital-T transgender-identifying males who do not represent a danger to women.
So by November 2022, Uhler the autogynephilia expert was convinced that “There are NO ‘Trans Criminals’! There are sexually deviant male criminals who dress in drag, who used this ‘loop hole’ to deceive people, avoid detection, thus placing women & minors at risk.”
This is how Uhler began to market his insights into “UnMasking (sic) The Trans Deception.” He is “unmasking” the experiences of detransitioners as DID.
More recently, Jon Uhler has revealed an unexpected expertise in pet psychology. “It was a tiny little dog… and you crossed it’s [sic] boundaries,” Uhler told a dog bite victim. Uhler falsely accused the bite victim of calling Child Protective Services on the dog’s owner, Brittany Ortiz “It was there to protect [the children]. Maybe it sensed something in you?”
In fact the dog had already bitten another adult in the household. In fact, Rouxx recorded her livestream with Uhler three days before these tweets by Uhler. In fact, the victim of the dog bite had nothing to do with Brittany Ortiz being reported to CPS, while the two incidents were separated by more than a year.
A far more probable cause of CPS action would be Ortiz’s Discord posts about getting so high on mushrooms that she has to be carried out of the yard into the house. We have a much likelier suspect, a serial harasser who has been on our radar before. We will have more to say about that later.
This sort of internecine infighting is what makes reporting from within radical feminism so much fun. We welcome Jon Uhler to his new world.
Full disclosure: Matt Osborne has met Brittany Ortiz in person when he physically defended a Let Women Speak event from black-clad assailants with a transgender flag. He has also participated in a free speech event on Capitol Hill with Ortiz and discussed a book by the parents of kids caught in the trans cult with Ortiz on her YouTube channel.
During that chat, Osborne was asked about Genspect, the organization which held a conference that he attended later in November 2023. Following the conference, Ortiz and other critics of the organization doubled down on tendentious and defamatory attacks against Genspect and its founders. A photograph of Phil Illy, a man wearing a dress, on the Genspect Twitter account infuriated them. Genspect had also linked to Illy’s self-published book, an act which was deemed nigh criminal.
Uhler has curried favor with this particular tranche of the ‘gender critical’ ‘community.’ We look forward to seeing how he profits from the association. Sensing that it would garner ‘likes,’ he began diagnosing (“assessing”) Genspect and X app users who attended its conference.
Being intimate with movement history ourselves, we have seen it all before. We will write the history of what used to be called the ‘gender critical’ movement here at The Distance. The loudest and most demanding have adopted the moniker of “Ultras” while a better-organized coalition increasingly refers to itself as “sex realism.”
During the Genspect conference, our editor Matt Osborne met Phil Illy and sized him up as “a California surfer dude.” Illy did not react to Matt’s use of male pronouns for him. Illy remained affable, calm, and forthright during the conversation. Matt observed Illy’s movements as much as feasible at a conference of four hundred people, noting where Illy sat, and that he used the men’s room. Matt would have intervened immediately if he had sensed a threat to anyone.
Sierra Weir, aka Exulansic, also attended the conference and interviewed Illy. She immediately elicited the information that Illy is in fact a Burning Man enthusiast and a circus performer rather than a surfer. Matt wrote a detailed review of Illy’s book two weeks after the conference and her information was very helpful. Exulansic took a picture with Illy to prove that she had clinical contact with him.
The most diversionary tranche of ‘Ultras’ (we call them “TruAnon”) have punished both individuals for their good deeds ever since. This smear campaign has affected our publication, our writers, and our subscriber base. Jonathan Knight Uhler has weighed into this controversy with his tendentious claims, citing his authority and expertise as a safeguarding expert, which he is not.
The Distance will continue reporting on the progress of Jon Uhler’s licensure review. We will focus on his family and business history in our next update to this series. We warn readers that the Jon Uhler story has dark and disturbing chapters. He is not what he wants people to think he is.
Nicole is not angry at her father for his views. "Jon and I share the same beliefs, regarding sexuality, sexual politics, gender identity, predatory concerns and behaviors," she says.
Instead, she wants people to know who her father really is, and is not. “I wish that was my real dad,” Nicole says of her father’s projected image.
We submit that Jon Uhler is jealous of prominent sex realists associated with Genspect who have far more clinical experience with, and access to, detransitioners than he does. Uhler would be a poor substitute for their expertise, especially under competent cross-examination.
Indeed, we must note that Uhler has taken noticeable steps to avoid ever being forced to testify. In a recent Tuesday evening appearance on the creatively-titled Imagination Podcast, Uhler told his host that “on occasion” he is available as a private “personal consultant.” Encouraging viewers to “reach out,” Uhler showed them how to sign up for his services on his SurvivorSupport website, noting that his terms and conditions include off-the-books accounting.
“I won’t be working with you using my therapy license,” Uhler said. “The reason why is that I don’t have to diagnose you.” He is “not having to do a treatment plan,” or “take case notes, and you don’t have to worry about if anything were ever to go to court.”
You too can have the Jill Crowley experience, become part of the Jon Uhler family, and discover your true selves, multiple. He is waiting for you.
We have recorded a two-part podcast with Nicole Uhler. Part One will premiere this Thursday. Want a preview of what’s to come? On Wednesday, Matt Osborne and Exulansic will spill all the tea in a video podcast available exclusively to premium subscribers of her Substack and The Distance.
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Here is my interview with Exulansic.
Matt And Exulansic Discuss The Red Flags Around Jon Uhler
Exulansic interviewed The Distance editor Matt Osborne to discuss our investigative reporting series on Jon Uhler, a self-styled “safeguarding expert.” Uhler has fueled social media harassment of Exulansic for months. They discussed the convergence of other toxic influencers under Uhler’s many personal red flags.
Here is the first part of our podcast series on Jon Uhler. Nicole speaks for herself.
This was a Twitter/X space recorded after the premiere of Part 1 of The Red Flags Around Jon Uhler.
The Jon Uhler Demolition Zone: More People Come Forward With Their Stories
Last Friday night, The Distance editor Matt Osborne hosted a space on X/Twitter to discuss our coverage of Jon Uhler, which is embedded below. Brandon Showalter of the Christian Post revealed his own experience looking into Uhler’s background as a reporter and the embarrassment of having to unpublish a story based on Uhler’s supposed expertise. Unexpect…
This is Part 2.
Incredible. I can't wait for part 2.
Aaaaand cross-posted!