Posts by Kathleen Mills LPC-S
Kathleens Public Comments Jan 2025
I’m Kathleen Mills LPC-S and co-creator of AMHP, the Association for Mental Health Professionals. Our profession is deeply divided right now thanks almost entirely to our academic output of the last twenty years. Competent grad students are leaving and changing their career paths because they don’t want to put up with the abuse they’re taking…
Read MoreOn Replacing Humans With AI
I decided to pen something on replacing humans with AI because it’s obviously a very hot topic and I think we need to slow down a lot before we act. I am not anti-technology and my jury is still out on the topic of the applications of AI in the mental health field. I do…
Read MoreOur Position on The Transgender GAC Issue
We believe that there are only two sexes, male and female; that the transgender affirming care issue is a mental health issue with underlying causes that need to be explored, identified, and treated. We believe that grown adults are entitled to determine their own course of action on this topic but we in no way…
Read MoreOur Position on the Workforce Shortage
A common-sense analysis of available population and licensee numbers leads us to conclude that there is no mental healthcare workforce shortage in TX (LPC and LMFT’s). The current perceived “shortage” stems from two major thought platforms. First, the odd manner in which the citizen:counselor ratios are calculated by the state guarantees a weak platform…
Read MoreOur Position on Conscience Protections
Free speech, including “religious freedom”, is guaranteed protection from Federal government interference by the first amendment. Religious Freedom includes religious beliefs and associated speech in the practice of one’s religion and spiritual beliefs. Our individual beliefs are protected from harm by other citizens through a concept called, “Conscience Protections”. The Founding Fathers believed that ones’…
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