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Social worker surrenders license amid sexual conduct allegations • Iowa Capital Dispatch [1]
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Date: 2025-05-09
An Iowa-licensed social worker accused of having personal or sexual relationships with two clients has agreed to surrender her license.
Earlier this year, the Iowa Board of Behavioral Health Professionals charged Stephanie A. Davies, formerly Stephanie A. Levy, with engaging in sexual activity with a former client within five years of the client relationship ending, and with having her social work license revoked in the state of Nebraska.
Nebraska Bureau of Public Health records show the bureau revoked Davies’ Nebraska license as a master social worker and mental health practitioner in March 2024 for alleged immoral or dishonorable conduct, exploitation and failure to keep adequate records.
The Nebraska records indicate Davies was working in private practice as a mental health practitioner and was a leader in the Nebraska First Responders’ Support Network when the alleged violations occurred. The bureau alleges that while speaking to a therapist, Davies disclosed that in the fall of 2020, she had become attracted to a female first responder to whom she provided services between July 2019 and February 2022.
In February 2021, the bureau alleged, the first responder admitted to her ex-wife she was having an affair with Davies, and in September 2021, Davies and the first responder attended a wedding together as a couple. In January 2022, Davies allegedly moved out of the home she shared with her husband and, on occasion, began staying at the first-responder’s home.
According to the bureau, Davies admitted to a state investigator, “I recognize that this is against the rules, I own it and, yeah, that is where we are at.”
As part of the Nebraska board’s investigation of the matter, an investigator spoke to another of Davies’ clients who allegedly said he and Davies had once maintained a “weird, blended relationship” and that, “yes, professional lines were probably crossed.”
To resolve the Iowa Board of Behavioral Health Professionals’ charges against her, Davies recently agreed to surrender her license.
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