Phillips LPC Board Comments Jan 2025

Phillips LPC Board Comments Jan 2025

I’m Phillip Crum, TX citizen and co-creator of AMHP, the Association for Mental Health Professionals. The Tide is Turning On Tuesday President Trump signed an Executive Order putting a halt to federal funding for any hospital or institution administering puberty blockers, replacement hormone therapy, or still butchering our children in the name of “affirming care”.…

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Phillips Public Comments Jan 2025

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…

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New Therapist Supply Chain

New 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…

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Workforce Shortage Numbers

Workforce 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,…

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Understanding the Workforce Shortage

Understanding 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…

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