BOSTON (AP) –An ex-stripper who once strutted her stuff as Princess Cheyenne in Boston’s”Combat Zone” is under investigation by the state for allegedly practicingpsychotherapy without a license.
Lucy Wightman,who performed at the Naked i in Boston in the 1970s and 80s and later at theFoxy Lady in Providence, R.I., allegedly saw patients at South Shore PsychologyAssociates, located in Hingham before it moved to Norwell.
Stateinvestigators “are looking to determine if there is sufficient evidence tobring a criminal complaint for unlicensed practice,” said Chris Goetcheus, aspokesman for the state Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation,which licenses psychologists.
WFXT-TV ofBoston first aired a story Sunday about Wightman’s psychotherapy practice. Shetold the station’s reporter that she was a psychologist. State law requirespracticing psychologists and social workers to be licensed, but notpsychotherapists. Wightman is listed as a manager of South Shore PsychologyAssociates LLC, founded in 2000, state records show.