van der Kolk may not have actually done anything wrong. Per Wikipedia:

“In 2017, van der Kolk was terminated from the parent organization of the Trauma Center, Justice Resource Institute, due to allegations of creating a hostile environment that allowed van der Kolk, then executive director of the Trauma Center, to engage in abusive practices] Van der Kolk stated that the termination was an attempt by the Justice Resource Institute to mitigate its own legal responsibility for the alleged misconduct. The executive team of the Trauma Center unanimously protested this termination, and all senior members of the Trauma Center resigned. Van der Kolk filed a lawsuit against the Justice Resource Institute for several counts of action including misrepresentation and defamation. The suit ended in a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). The suit was settled quickly out of court. In 2020, the Trauma Center at the Justice Resource Institute closed permanently.”

A sad FYI: Most people don’t know, but Bessel van Der Folk was fired from his namesake clinic after years of harassing/traumatizing women. My therapist suggested Janina Turner as an alternative.