Therapy Disruptors

Dr. Ryan M. Burkhart, Dean of The School of Counseling at Colorado Christian University knows a lot about accrediting, counseling associations, and the future of the counseling profession. He shares that information with Kathleen and Phillip and it really is worth your time to hear him as well. AMHP's Annual Conference Information The Austin BBQ Club Impulse Payments Credit Card Programs Colorado...

Informed Consent is a trending topic right now. What does the State say about it? As a counselor, what do you think it means? What does it look like? What should it look like? What might the legal ramifications be for improper application of this step in your client process? We dive into the deep end with Dr. Melanie Crites-Bachert and discuss all of this within the framework of the transgender is...

This week Kathleen, Phillip, and Kip hunker down to discuss the top items on their collective mind. What qualifies as mental illness? Legislative items being discussed and several other topics to make you stop and go, "hmmmmm". AMHP's Annual Conference Information The Austin BBQ Club Impulse Payments Credit Card Programs

Dr. Matt Chalmers is a chiropractor with an intense interest in human metabolic systems, how they function, and their relation to good mental health. In this discussion with him we touch on everything from cracking bones to gut health to ketamine to the role hormones play in mental health. This is a fire-hose conversation. matt talks 90 mhp with occasional gusts up to 120 so you may want to listen...

A lot of good patriots working to pass legislation in most states and Rebecca Smith is one of them, here in Texas. Her HB 2258 will put some serious teeth into the fight against the use of chemicals, hormones, and scalpels in the left's efforts to make the physical presentation match the horribly misguided delusion being foisted upon our children by adults. It also includes a 20 year statute o...

The public trust level for our profession has taken a giant hit in the past 10 years because of the woke ideology. Fixing that issue will take decades but it also creates a marketing opportunity for conservative clients because people are desperately looking for you. Are you making it easy for them to find and identify you? This is a discussion about surviving as a conservative counselor in a prof...

Words have meanings which means those meanings can be manipulated by less than ethical people pushing an agenda. First you have to know what these two terms mean, then you have to ask yourself why the term, "Evidence-Based" is so popular in our profession right now. Love to know your thoughts. Show Notes AMHP's Annual Conference Information The Austin BBQ Club Empathic EHR Program La...

Soad Tabrizi is a licensed mental health counselor in the Golden State of California. She is a tireless warrior for the reclamation of the counseling profession and the reinstatement of common sense and subjective American values. And she has some thoughts. Oh, and the Show Notes this week are incredibly rich in information so carve out some time to review them. Show Notes AMHP's Annual Confer...

The TX Legislature meets once every two years for 120 days to consider bills addressing almost anything you can think of, including bills affecting the mental health industry. BHEC's Darrel Spinks tracks a lot of them, especially if they have anything to do with BHEC, and that's what we're talking with him about today. If we know about this stuff ahead of time, WE can address it. But y...

The very first cobblestone in the road to becoming a professional mental health counselor is the American Family Unit. Without a healthy family unit model a society cannot function and so this is where the journey begins. Our go-to guy for marriage and family topics is, of course, Rick McCarthy MFT out of Southern California. Rick's a 40+ year veteran of marriage and family work and is the emb...

Time for another roundtable discussion with Kathleen, Kip, and Phillip. On the agenda is the gutting of the DEI initiative in the TX Mental Health professions' ce/license renewal process, a wack-job survey from a PhD candidate at a nearby university, and some other topics, all of which will help arm you for those impropmtu discussions at the water-cooler. AMHP's Annual Conference Information The A...

Dr. Melanie Crites-Bachert is a surgeon specializing in pelvic reconstruction. Ever wonder why no surgeons are speaking up about the transgender surgeries? Once you marry the reality of these horrific surgeries with the idea that you can match the physical reality to the mental delusion, any shred of doubt you may have had about the veracity of this entire movement will be voided. Listen to this i...

Wholistic treatment approach begins with The Four Pillars: Food, Water, Sleep, and Exercise. Once those components are under control then additional treatment options for the Body-Mind-Spirit may be considered. In this episode we're going to have a discussion with Kathleen's longtime guru of alternative treatment options, CJ Bredsen.

Pamela Garfield-Jaeger LCSW wrote the handbook for parents and counselors on Gender Distress and we talked her into sitting with us for an hour. The best General to lead a fight is one who has actually been outside of the counseling session room and in the trenches and Pamela does indeed qualify! If you feel the professional need to learn more about the trans topic to help your clients, or just st...

You've decided to augment your therapy practice with a wholistic approach. Congratulations! Your next step is to incorporate that approach into your overall intake process. This discussion walks through the intake processes for both Kathleen and Kip and details what they've done to incorporate the wholistic flavor into that process, including through at least that very first session. This...

We've gathered three of the brightest counseling minds in all of N. Texas to share with you what we believe the top trends and events will be for 2025. But not just any predictions, specifically those that will affect the mental health industry for better or for worse. See how our predictions line up with your best thinking!

Lot of things about the counseling profession don't make sense including a supposed workforce shortage and declining payouts to counselors. The vertical consolidation of the healthcare industry explains most of it. In this interview with Sean Shahkarami we're going to do a deep dive of the difference between vertical consolidation and the decentralization of an industry. And it has everyth...

Peggy sits on the board of The Alliance for Therapeutic Choice, an organization that advocates for choice in a clients treatment options pertaining particularly to sexual identity issues. A big part of their efforts also revolve around jump-starting our flaccid pastoral community, encouraging and empowering them to lead the way. This convo touches on a myriad of topics and is well worth a listen....

The election is behind us and for half of the voters things didn't go their way. When the pressure is on one's true colors are put on display and that's exactly what we're seeing online from the half of our counseling community that subscribes to the "feelings rule" mantra. While we can't cure that problem in one podcast this discussion may give you some reassurance....

The TX LPC Licensing Board has a new public member, Sean Shahkarami. He's been appointed to finish out the term of the latest public member to quit early. In his first public board meeting Sean spoke up and asked some hard questions quickly gaining our attention. We thought we'd get to know him a little better. Show Notes AMHP's Annual Conference Information The Austin BBQ Club Impulse...

Back in Dallas-town to attend the AACC conference, we took the opportunity to sit down with Dr Dawn Irons and pick her brains again. You'll pick up a few very interesting talking points from this discussion. Show Notes AMHP's Annual Conference Information The Austin BBQ Club SecurityMetrics HIPAA Compliance Program

When Kip said she "had a mole" inside the Christian education system we should have known it was one of her coach friends! We talked with Coach Andrew Embry to get his observations on how the world of kids and parenting has changed in the past 25 years, and what we should be paying attention to as counselors. Sometimes a different pov is just the thing! Show Notes AMHP's Annual Confe...

Phillip and Kathleen sit down to do a quick de-briefing following the successful 2nd Annual AMHP Conference in Carrollton, TX. Some interesting thoughts in here, and some good reasons you may want to join us next year. Show Notes AMHP's Annual Conference Information The Austin BBQ Club Impulse Payments Credit Card Programs

Dr Richard Bosshardt is a recently retired plastic surgeon from the humid climes of the Florida peninsula. His common-sense based views on dealing with patients in his industry with obvious body dysmorphic issues was so startlingly simple and contrasted so clearly with how certain deluded factions within the mental health community are viewing it that we felt compelled to reach out to him. The nex...

AMHP Co-Founder Kathleen Mills LPC-S met attorney Josh Hetzler of Founding Freedoms Law while at an AACC invitation only planning conference in Virginia in early August. Josh is a partner at the non-profit firm specializing in 1st Amendment issues and so he is well acquainted with the topic of "conscience protections". Listen as Josh explains that your thoughts and beliefs are assigned b...