Nice way of writing the article -- the narrative in the first half makes us believe Clougherty's side, while the second half shows the other side of the story.
The author paints the therapist, Keith Saylor, in a really bad light imo. The whole piece flips so hard at that moment. The relationship seems mostly positive and normal, seemingly with evidence. Things get rocky then a therapist quickly encourages and hard reinforces an much different and extremely negative picture. It almost feels unethical to reinforce such a tale without a police investigation. Couple this with the recent NYTimes article about fabricated memories and therapist could make anyone honestly believe anything they wanted to. That's scary.
I didn't read the article but by reading your comment, The movie "Gone Girl" comes to my mind.