Posts by Phillip Crum
Phillips Public Comments Jan 2025
I’m Phillip Crum, TX citizen and co-creator of AMHP, the Association for Mental Health Professionals. Phillips Public Comments Jan 2025 At this very moment the Texas Medical Board, the TMB, is trying to take the medical license of Dr. Mary Talley Bowden. Her crime, her ethical infraction, was to speak up in favor of Covid…
Read MoreNew Therapist Supply Chain
The New Therapist Supply Chain is a diagram of the birth-to-practice pipeline that supplies our profession with new counselors. It is “the system” through which our new therapists are generated, and it is broken. We use the diagram as a visual aid to analyze the various steps and pitfalls in counselor development. It’s a…
Read MoreWorkforce Shortage Numbers
A lot of talk about a workforce shortage and ways to increase the number of licensed therapists. But is there really not enough therapists to go around? Let’s see what the numbers say. The Working Variables 32,000,000-Texas citizens 45,000-Licensed LPC and LMFT’s in Texas 20%-Annual active client rate 4-Average number of appts per active client,…
Read MoreUnderstanding the Workforce Shortage
We anticipate the mental health crisis in America, and access to mental health providers, will worsen in the foreseeable future (3-5 years) until key systemic and economic issues have been righted. But understanding the workforce shortage and what that really means is key to developing a practical solution rather than one that simply appeases an…
Read MoreThe Return of Our Profession Begins
So what just happened on Tuesday? I’ll tell you what happened. Cultural Marxism 3.0 officially died because rural America showed up and put a stake through its evil heart. Real, “Constitutional-Republic”ans showed up en masse and said, “No, I don’t think so, Karl.” The Return of Our Profession Begins Be advised though, this is not…
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