Hystericology

Former staff member for two adolescent teen treatment center talks about his experiences witnessing abuse in the teen treatment industry with therapists Andrea Hanson and Elizabeth Beckmann. Andrea and Elizabeth are passionate about mental health and serving their clients. This has driven them to be outspoken about what is going wrong in the mental health field both for therapists and clients that...

Andrea Hanson LCMHC went to a treatment center as a teen. Holly Stuart-Caines LCSW was lead staff there at the time. Now, both as licensed therapists, they have come together to talk about their experiences in adolescent residential treatment. Together they explore: Are adolescent treatment centers helpful or harmful? Do therapeutic boarding schools traumatize teens? What needs to happen for the t...

The average process goes: feel off, see a mental health professional, get diagnosed, and then prescribed treatment whether that is a medication, therapeutic intervention, or both and so on and so on. The beginning of that process typically involves something called informed consent. Informed consent is meant to give clients all of the information they need about the process so that they can choose...

"The dictionary definitions of "normal" are all entirely beguilingly tautological. To know what is normal you have to know what is abnormal. And guess how "abnormal" is defined in the dictionaries - those things that are not normal or regular or natural or typical or usual or conforming to a norm. Talk about circular tail chasing - each term is defined exclusively as the negative of the other; the...

Why are rates of mental illness and suicide so high in Utah? Are the current popular therapy interventions in Utah enough? What can therapists do to help? The therapy culture in Utah is very talk therapy heavy. There is an emphasis on intellectualizing distress and making changes to thoughts in order to feel better. Therapists that engage in well-researched deeper brain and body modalities such as...

Earlier this week the news of a murder-suicide committed by Parth Gandhi, a neuropsychologist in Utah shocked the local community. A year prior, Utah therapist David Hamblin was charged with ritualistic child abuse. In 2019 news broke of two therapists, Jarrid Wilson and Gregory Eells taking their own lives within the same week. What happens when therapists aren't ok? What does the mental health f...

In this episode of Hystericology, Elizabeth Beckmann LMFT, Andrea Hanson LCMHC interview special guest Valerie Martin LCSW talk about what it means to be a bad bitch therapist. Can therapists be people too? Can therapists be authentic, unapologetic people? There are a lot of expectations, fears, and shame that come along with the job title of "therapist".Listen along as these three therapists disc...

Does choosing to be a therapist also have to mean living a suppressed life in isolation and scarcity? Are therapists who want to be able to take vacations every now and then and spend time taking care of their own families bad therapists or even bad people? What do therapists miss out on when they limit themselves out of fear and shame? Elizabeth Beckmann LMFT, Andrea Hanson LCMHC, and special gue...

Andrea Hanson LCMHC and Elizabeth Beckmann LMFT discuss the harm caused by the unregulated life coaching and healing industries. They challenge life coaches and healers to be aware of the damage that can be done by not knowing what you don't know and bust myths perpetuated by the coaching field.

Many survivors of the teen treatment industry have spoken out against it over the years, including Paris Hilton who has cast a large spotlight on abusive practices over the last several years. Organizations like Breaking Code Silence have helped survivors of institutional abuse suffered at adolescent treatment centers through support, advocacy, education, and research. But many mental health thera...

Many survivors of the teen treatment industry have spoken out against it over the years, including Paris Hilton who has cast a large spotlight on abusive practices over the last several years. Organizations like Breaking Code Silence have helped survivors of institutional abuse suffered at adolescent treatment centers through support, advocacy, education, and research. But many mental health thera...

Elizabeth Beckmann DMFT LMFT and Andrea D Hanson Med LCMHC shine a light on the minds of clinical therapists. While it’s true that being a therapist is an incredibly fulfilling career, there are parts of the work that are detrimental to the well-being of the therapist. Navigating conversations, relationships, clinic cultures, insurance companies, therapist-to-therapist dynamics, and work-life bala...