‘It’s my nature to be dominant’: Therapist allegedly choked and threatened to kill patient he was having affair with after she broke up with him

Thaddeus Tolbert appears inset against an image of an apartment where an attack allegedly occurred

Inset: Thaddeus Tolbert (Conversations with Friends/YouTube). Background: An apartment complex in Houston where Tolbert allegedly attacked his ex-girlfriend (Google Maps).

A Houston therapist was allegedly having an extramarital affair with one of his patients and became exceedingly violent with rage when she broke up with him, law enforcement in the Lone Star State say.

Thaddeus Tolbert, 31, stands accused of one count each of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and burglary of a habitation, according to criminal complaint filed in Harris County.

Jhyah Scales, 29, first came to know the man when he was her child’s therapist beginning in October 2023. Their relationship would develop, still along professional lines, in February 2024 when she began to see Tolbert for her own psychological purposes as well.

The ethical road, however, was allegedly worn out soon enough. She “started to see him outside of that, sexually, in March of 2024,” according to the complaint. But their romance did not last long. Near the end of the very next month, Scales learned her doctor turned lover was married and had children of his own, authorities say.

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