Posts by Phillip Crum
Why Chiles v. Salazar is Important to Mental Health Counselors
Executive Summary-Chiles v. Salazar Your protected 1st Amendment (1A) rights as a citizen travel with you into your professional relationships with your clients. The State cannot tell you what to think (Conscience Protections) or what you can or cannot talk about (Viewpoint Discrimination) in your session room with your patients. The delivery of services you…
Read MorePhillips Public Comments to BHEC Council June 2026
I’m Phillip Crum, Joe Citizen, and co-founder of AMHP. Phillips Public Comments to BHEC Council The last two years have seen positive new additions to all four boards. A renewed devotion to purpose, especially by the public members willing to question the professional members. That’s been extremely encouraging and I hope that trend continues. The…
Read MoreWhat Do We Do About Professional Competency?
Can We Save Professional Competency? Anyone who has been around since before the year 2000 knows that the bar of practice competency in the mental health field is arguably much lower than it was just two decades ago. It’s been slowly and subtly redefined to operate not from a base of replicable, peer-reviewed science to…
Read MorePhillip Crums Public Comments 5-1-26
I’m Phillip Crum, Joe Citizen, co-founder of AMHP. What’s the Problem? The long-term feminization of the discipline has produced a woke professional mindset that believes a practice should be run on feelings, equality of outcome as long as someone else is paying for it, and virtue signaling. Underlying it all is a group-think, “terminal empathy”.…
Read MoreCall to Action
This is your call to action. Did you know that the American Revolution was fought and won with only less than 3% of the American population participating in a role other than grousing about things in a public tavern? Less than 3%. The remainder were content to let someone else do the heavy lifting and…
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